CHAPTER TWENTY.
A NOCTURNAL ADVENTURE.
When night came again the young hunters went to sleep by the fire.

As it had suddenly grown chilly, they lay with their feet towards it, such being the usual practice of hunters when sleeping by a fire.

When the feet are warm, the remainder of the body can easily be kept so; but, on the contrary, when one's feet become cold, it is scarcely possible to sleep.

They were not troubled with cold, and all three were soon sleeping soundly.
From the necessity of supplying the barbecue every now and then with fresh embers, a large fire had been kept up during the day.

It still continued to blaze and crackle in a bright red pile.