He would then be in time to help with the skinning, which we expected would be continued throughout the entire night.

Kermit stopped at his own camp and gave Clark a guide for the rest of the journey, after which he went to bed.
At eleven o'clock the sound of firing was heard some place off in the darkness.

The night guard of the Roosevelt camp, rightly construing it to be a signal, answered it with a shot, and, guided by the latter, Clark and his party of salt-laden porters once more appeared.

They had traveled in a circle for three hours and were hopelessly lost.

Kermit was routed out and again supplied more guides--also a compass and also the direction to follow.