Now let us rest awhile; we need it." About two o'clock we were up again and before it was dawn on the following morning we had loaded our camels and were on the road.

By the first faint light we saw that what Roderick had told us was true.

We were crossing the track of an army of many thousand men who had passed there recently with laden camels and horses.

Moreover, those men were Fung, for we picked up some articles that could have belonged to no other people, such as a head-dress that had been lost or thrown away, and an arrow that had fallen from a quiver.
However, we saw nothing of them, and, travelling fast, to our great relief by midday reached the river Ebur, which we crossed without difficulty, for it was now low.

That night we camped in the forest-lands beyond, having all the afternoon marched up the rising ground at the foot of which ran the river.
Toward dawn Higgs, whose turn it was to watch the camels, came and woke me.
"Sorry to disturb you, old fellow," he said, "but there is a most curious sky effect behind us which I thought you might like to see." I rose and looked.