If help was coming, we now felt it would never come in time.

We dug into the shale with the handles of our lamps and with our fingers, to make our position more secure.

We did not venture to speak of our late companion's fate to one another.

Horror overwhelmed us, so enfeebled had we become through famine and fatigue.

We had devoured our leather belts, and even crumbled the rotten wood of the timber-props in water, and eaten that; but we were now consumed by thirst, which we dared no longer quench.