I propose that we take two days' supply for ourselves, in our water bottles; and that we push forward on foot, sending two of the constables back to the stream, with our horses.
I propose that we should push forward tonight.

I expect the track we are following is the true one, and the stars will do as a guide.
"At daybreak we will lie down in the bushes.

The blacks will probably leave some fellows behind, as scouts.

They, seeing nothing of us, will suppose we have given it up and gone home, and they will make but a short journey.

At night we will go on again, and the chances are that, before morning, we shall catch sight of their fires, and will fall upon them at daylight.