When we saw you washed down, we were afraid that you were lost.

The only hope was that the current might bring you over to our side again, and we went two or three miles down the stream to look for you.

We hunted again still more carefully the next morning, and it was not until the afternoon that we moved.
"We encamped only three miles from the river, hoping still that you might come up before the morning.

We started at daybreak this morning.

We were harassed from the first, but the affair became so serious that we halted and faced about, left a handful of men to protect the coolies and carriers; and then sent two companies out into the bush on each side, and went at them.