This they followed for some hours, and then lay down to rest.

They awoke at daybreak.
"I wonder where we have got to," Hallett said.
"I am afraid somehow we have gone wrong," Lisle exclaimed, after looking round, "and the light seems to be coming from the wrong quarter, altogether.

We must have turned off from the main path without knowing it, and tramped a long distance in the wrong direction." "I believe you are right, Bullen.

What on earth are we to do now?
Retrace our steps, or push on and chance it ?" "We have the choice of two evils, Hallett, but I think it would be better to go on than to turn back.

In the first place, however, we must search for something to eat.