It was a long journey from the point where they turned.

Harry calculated that it would be nearly fifty miles.

The fort was some fifteen miles northeast of Sekerah, and they were now farther away from Delhi than they had been when they started.

He felt the advantage of the light native dress, and the sandals that Abdool had given him instead of his boots.
When they came across cultivated ground they walked; but a great portion of the country was a sandy waste; with the ruins of villages and temples that had, in the palmy days of the empire, stood there.

Across this they went at a trot, for the sand was generally compact enough to sustain their weight.
"We shall hardly get there before day breaks, sahib," Abdool remarked.
"No; but that is of little consequence.