Making a detour to the left of the road in a vain search for water, I fell behind the column as it marched slowly along.
As I moved again to the front, I passed scores of men who had fallen from utter exhaustion.

Many were delirious, and begged piteously for water in ever so small a quantity.

Several died from excessive heat, and others were for a long time unfit for duty.

Reaching the spring which gave its name to the locality, I was fortunate in finding only the advance of the command.

With considerable effort I succeeded in obtaining a pint cupful of water, and thus allayed my immediate thirst.
According to the custom in that region, the spring was covered with a frame building, about eight feet square.