I kissed them, not quite cold, laid the body down again, and appointing a guard over it, rose to provide for the safety of Lona's people during the night.
Before the sun went down, I had set a watch over the princess outside the camp, and sentinels round it: intending to walk about it myself all night long, I told the rest of the army to go to sleep.

They threw themselves on the grass and were asleep in a moment.
When the moon rose I caught a glimpse of something white; it was the leopardess.

She swept silently round the sleeping camp, and I saw her pass three times between the princess and the Little Ones.

Thereupon I made the watch lie down with the others, and stretched myself beside the body of Lona..