This was kept for the children giving them a little now and then.

Our only food was in the flesh of the oxen, and when they failed to carry themselves along we must begin to starve.

It began to look as if the chances of leaving our bones to bleach upon the desert were the most prominent ones.
One thing was certain we must move somewhere at once.

If we stay here we can live as long as the oxen do, and no longer, and if we go on it is uncertain where to go, to get a better place.

We had guns and ammunition to be sure, but of late we had seen no living creature in this desert wild.