This was put among the red embers, which were drawn over the lid so as to bake it from above as well as below.

Then, if they had no other meat, rashers of bacon would be grilled over the fire, and eaten with the hot bread.

Generally, however, they had been able to purchase a kid or some fowls at one or other of the little villages through which they passed.
They always carried with them two of the large skins filled with water, in case none should be met with at their halting places; this sufficed for tea and for a good drink at night, and before starting in the morning for the horses.

The villages, however, had become fewer and fewer, and at the last through which they had passed they had bought one of the little bullocks of the country, cut the flesh into strips, and hung it in the sun to dry, halting three days for the purpose..