So we cut down the small tree and lopped the branches off and heaped them round the big trunk.

Then, at a distance, we cut down ten more small trees, and afterwards, further away, ten more, and then others, and piled them all round, tree after tree, until the pile reached as far from the trunk as that," and here he pointed to a bush forty to fifty yards from where we sat.
The feeling with which I had listened to this recital had become intolerable.

The sweat ran from me in streams; I shivered like a person in a fit of ague, and clenched my teeth together to prevent them from rattling.

"I must drink," I said, cutting him short and rising to my feet.

He also rose, but did not follow me, when, with uncertain steps, I made my way to the waterside, which was ten or twelve yards away.