The Rain Comes Down With Extra Virulence As Soon As We Set To Work
To Start The Fire And Open The Loads.
I and Peter have great times
getting out the military camp-bed from its tight, bolster-like case,
while
Kefalla gives advice, until, being irritated by the bed's
behaviour, I blow up Kefalla and send him to chop firewood.
However, we get the thing out and put up after cutting a place clear
to set it on; owing to the world being on a stiff slant hereabouts,
it takes time to make it stand straight. I get four stakes cut, and
drive them in at the four corners of the bed, and then stretch over
it Herr von Lucke's waterproof ground-sheet, guy the ends out to
pegs with string, feel profoundly grateful to both Herr Liebert for
the bed and Herr von Lucke for the sheet, and place the baggage
under the protection of the German Government's two belongings.
Then I find the boys have not got a fire with all their fuss, and I
have to demonstrate to them the lessons I have learnt among the Fans
regarding fire-making. We build a fire-house and then all goes
well. I notice they do not make a fire Fan fashion, but build it in
a circle.
Evidently one of the labourers from Buea, named Xenia, is a good
man. Equally evidently some of my other men are only fit to carry
sandwich-boards for Day and Martin's blacking.
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