We need food.

We shall need shelter before many hours.
And we need discipline, to aid our will to overcome! Therefore there never was a regiment more fiercely disciplined than this shall be! From now until we bring up in a British camp--and God knows when or where that may happen!--the man who as much as thinks of disobedience plays with death! Death--ye be as good as dead men now!" said he.
He shook himself.

A sense of loneliness had come on me since he told us we were in Asia, and I think the men felt as I did.

There had been nothing to eat on the steamer, and there was nothing now.
Hunger and cold and rain were doing their work.

But Ranjoor Singh stood and shook himself, and moved slowly along the line to look in each man's face, and I took new courage from his bearing.