Indeed, I dared not do so until I was sure of Oro's approval.
Towards evening they departed in their canoes, leaving behind them the usual ample store of provisions.
We cooked our meal as usual, only to discover that what Yva had said about the Life-water was quite true, since we had but little appetite for solid food, though this returned upon the following day.

The same thing happened upon every occasion after drinking of that water which certainly was a most invigorating fluid.

Never for years had any of us felt so well as it caused us to do.
So we lit our pipes and talked about our experiences though of these, indeed, we scarcely knew what to say.

Bastin accepted them as something out of the common, of course, but as facts which admitted of no discussion.

After all, he said, the Old Testament told much the same story of people called the Sons of God who lived very long lives and ran after the daughters of men whom they should have left alone, and thus became the progenitors of a remarkable race.