I always rise at this hour, and pray till morning; therefore you may as well lay yourself down on these leaves.

There is another cell, like this, in the opposite corner of the temple.

In the morning you can cut boughs, and roof it like this; and make your bed there.

There is no room for another, here; and it will doubtless be more pleasant for you to have a place to yourself, where you can go and come as you like; for in the day women come up to consult me, and ask for my prayers--but mind how you enter it for the first time as, like as not, there will be snakes sheltering there." Stanley lay awake for a time, listening to the monotonous voice of the priest as he repeated his prayers; but his senses soon wandered, and he slept soundly till daybreak.
His first step was to cut a stout stick, and he then proceeded to the other cell, which was partially blocked up with stone from the fallen roof.

It took him two hours to carry this stuff out, and he killed no less than nine snakes that he disturbed in his work.