31/31 "My own bones," I thought, "will soon be added to the pile." So great was my agony of mind that I had to leave the spot, and interest myself in other things; but some time afterwards, when I had got over my nervousness, I renewed my digging operations, and in an hour or so had unearthed no fewer than sixteen complete skeletons--fourteen adults, and two younger people, possibly women! They lay alongside one another, covered by sand that had been blown over them by the wind.. |