CHAPTER V.
SAM'S FORTRESS.
Sam's companions kept perfectly still.

Their reverence for Sam had grown with every foot of their travels, and their confidence in his ability to get out of any difficulty, and ultimately to accomplish his purposes in the face of any obstacle, was now quite unbounded.

And so, when he told them it was impossible to reach the fort and that he wanted to think, they patiently awaited the results of his thinking, confident that he would presently hit upon precisely the right thing to do.
After a while he raised his head from his hands and said: "Come on, we must get clear away from here before morning;" but he said not a word about where he was going.

His course was now nearly south-east, and just as the day was breaking he stopped and said: "There is the river at last.

Now let's go to sleep." They obeyed him unquestioningly, though they had not the faintest idea where they were or what river it was which he had seen a little way ahead.