What do you recommend ?" "I don't know what to recommend," the settler said.

"They have no doubt done it to confuse us, in case we should follow so far, and avoid being thrown off the scent the other side of the hill.

The band may really have scattered, and gone off in small parties to different parts of the bush; or again, they may have scattered with the understanding that they will meet again, at some given spot, which may be ten and may be fifty miles ahead." "The worst of it is," Reuben said, "I fear now that there is an end of all chance of coming up with them, today; and now the question of water comes in.

If we could have caught them before nightfall, the horses, having had a good drink at that stream, could have done very well till we'd gone another thirty miles; but as that seems hopeless, now, we must consider seriously what we had best do, before we go any further.

Does anyone here know anything of the country ahead ?" There was a general silence.
"The horses can do very well, tomorrow, without water," Mr.Blount said.