"He has gone to put the nose-rope upon three more of the camels.

But it is foolishness, and we are all going to our death.

Now come with me, and we shall awaken the women and tell them." The Colonel shook his companions and whispered to them what was in the wind.

Belmont and Fardet were ready for any risk.

Stephens, to whom the prospect of a passive death presented little terror, was seized with a convulsion of fear when he thought of any active exertion to avoid it, and shivered in all his long, thin limbs.