No, nor even stewed or broiled; so that now the old hen and her young one were no longer looked upon as so much provision ahead.

Both would be thrown away, to form food for the first predatory creature that might chance to light upon them.
As time passed, however, and the sufferers, instead of feeling relieved, only seemed to be growing worse--the vertigo and nausea continuing, while the vomiting was renewed in frequent and violent attacks--they at length became seriously alarmed, believing themselves poisoned to death.
They knew not what to do.

They had no medicine to act as an antidote; and if they had been in possession of all the drugs in the pharmacopoeia, they would not have known which to make use of.

Had it been the bite of a venomous snake or other reptile, the Malay, acquainted with the usual native remedies, might have found some herbaceous balsam in the forest; though in the darkness there would have been a difficulty about this, since it was now midnight, and there was no moon in the sky--no light to look for anything.

They could scarcely see one another, and each knew where his neighbours lay only by hearing their moans and other exclamations of distress.
As the hours dragged on wearily, they became still more and more alarmed.