Go where you will you find him, and so it must have been always.

I have seen him enclosed in amber, which is, I was told, quite half a million years old, looking exactly like his descendant of to-day, and I have little doubt but that when the last man lies dying on the earth he will be buzzing round--if this event happens to occur in summer--watching for an opportunity to settle on his nose.
At sunset we halted, waiting for the moon to rise.

At last she came up, beautiful and serene as ever, and, with one halt about two o'clock in the morning, we trudged on wearily through the night, till at last the welcome sun put a period to our labours.

We drank a little and flung ourselves down on the sand, thoroughly tired out, and soon were all asleep.

There was no need to set a watch, for we had nothing to fear from anybody or anything in that vast untenanted plain.