Take what men you want, and set to work drawing water at once.

You must try and clear out some hollow among the stones near the mouth of the well, so that the horses can be led to drink as fast as the men can haul the water up." I was in the party told off to help; and the first thing to be done was to find the nearest part of the court to the interior building where the mine-shaft was.

It proved to be an easier task than we anticipated.
What was better, we came upon a pile of stones in one corner, close up to the wall, which looked as if they had been heaped up there by hand for some reason or another; and they attracted me so that I drew Denham's attention to them, and told him what I thought.
"You're right," he said.

"Here, half-a-dozen of you, come and help." He was about to set the men to work to drag the stones away; but I proposed that the tethering raw-hide ropes of two of the horses should be attached to their saddles and the ends made fast to the great rough slabs of stone.

This was done, and the horses set to draw, when one by one a dozen massive pieces were drawn aside, leaving a little opening, through which I dropped a stone, with the result that those who listened heard a deep-sounding _plosh_! and set up a cheer.