Some fifty men were gathered round these, and were occupied in cooking their midday meal.
"I am glad to see that you have arrived," the captain said, coming across to Charlie.

"I expected you two hours ago, and intended, as soon as we had finished our meal, to send out another four men to meet you and help to carry you in." "Thank you," Charlie said.

"It is not the men's fault we are late, but the last part of the way we came on very slowly.

I was getting so exhausted that I had to stop every few hundred yards." "Well, you had better eat something, and then lie down for a sleep.
Meat is plentiful with us, for there are thousands of goats in the forest, and occasionally we get a deer or wild boar.

If we had but bread and wine we should live like nobles.