It was my intention only to have made a temporary stay here, but other ties came, and my little ones were by no means strong enough to undertake any such formidable journey as I had in contemplation.

I also made the fatal mistake of trying to bring my offspring up differently from the other savage children.

But I must relate here an incident that happened on our journey north.

Yamba came to me one day positively quivering with excitement and terror, and said she had found some strange tracks, apparently of some enormous beast--a monster so fearful as to be quite beyond her knowledge.
She took me to the spot and pointed out the mysterious tracks, which I saw at once were those of camels.

I do not know why I decided to follow them, because they must have been some months old.