Luckily no one was under it and no harm was done, but for a moment, in connection with the light episode and the gunshot, it gave us a shock.

Every one laughed, and soon the camp was still again.

The sun was well up before we awoke.

Immediately the discussion of the strange light came up, and it formed a lively and amusing topic, not only then, but ever after for months.

Breakfast became a stirring debating scene, when plump into the midst of our hilarity, as if to emphasise the declarations of the nervous member, there came a sharp call from beyond a line of bushes.