At length we reached a village, and halted for the night.
I laid her carefully in a miserable hut, and watched beside her.

I opened her clinched teeth with a small wooden wedge and inserted a wet rag, upon which I dropped water to moisten her tongue, which was dry as fur.

The unfeeling brutes that composed the native escort were yelling and dancing as though all were well, and I ordered their chief at once to return with them to Kamrasi, as I would travel with them no longer.
At first they refused to return, until at length I vowed that I would fire into them should they accompany us on the following morning.

Day broke, and it was a relief to have got rid of the brutal escort.

They had departed, and I had now my own men and the guides supplied by Kamrasi.
There was nothing to eat in this spot.