She sank down a little way from him.
He began to tell her some of his past exploits: the Amazon, the Orinoco, the Andes, Tibet and China; of the strange flotsam and jetsam he had met in his travels.

But she sensed only the sound of his voice and the desire to reach out her hand and touch his.

Friendship! Bread in the wilderness! * * * * * * Ahmed was lean and deceptive to the eye.

Like many Hindus, he appeared anemic; and yet the burdens the man could put on his back and carry almost indefinitely would have killed many a white man who boasted of his strength.

On half a loaf of black bread and a soldier's canteen of water he could travel for two days.