"See, my lord, there are some broken gourds, and some rags scattered about." "So there are," Gregory said.

"We will take the bridles out of the horses' mouths, so that they can chew the leaves up better; and then we will see if we can find where the wells were." Twenty yards farther away they found a deep hole.
"This was one of them," the lad said, "but it is quite dry.

See, there is an old bucket lying at the bottom.

I will look about; there may be some more of them." Two others were discovered, and the sand at the bottom of one of them looked a somewhat darker colour than the others.
"Well, we will dig here," Gregory said.

"Bring down those two half gourds; they will help us to shovel the sand aside." The bottom of the hole was some six feet across, and they set to work in the middle of it.