I think this happen and try it before dark.

You just follow Jeekie, that all you got to do." So leaving the fire burning in front of their bough shelter, they waded the stream and started up the opposing slope, meeting no man.

Dark as it was, Jeekie seemed to have no difficulty in finding the way, for as Fahni said, a native does not forget the path he has once travelled.

All night long they walked rapidly, and when dawn broke found themselves at the edge of the forest.
"Jeekie," said Alan, "what did Fahni mean by that tale about white people ?" "Don't know, Major, think perhaps he lie to let you down easy.

My golly! what that ?" As he spoke a distant echo reached their ears, the echo of a rifle shot.
"Think Fanny not lie after all," went on Jeekie; "that white man's gun, sharp crack, smokeless powder, but wonder how he come in this place.
Well, we soon find out.