Hunger and thirst, too, scourged them on.

Their first care was food and drink.
Fortune favored them.

In spite of the simoom the prevailing west wind had cast up all along the shore--for two or three miles each way--perhaps a quarter or a third of the stores they had been forced to jettison.

Before doing anything else, the Legion brought in these cases of provisions and established a regular camp in the wady where they would be protected from observation from the Sahara.

The piling up of these stores, the building of a fire to keep off the flies, and the portioning out of what little tobacco they had with them, wonderfully stiffened their morale.
Water, however, was still lacking; and all the Legionaries, as well as the old Sheik who would have died in the flames before asking for drink, were beginning to suffer extremely.