Out Of Five Two Only Were Now Present; Our Little Band Had Been Severed Never To Be Reunited; And I Could Not But Blame Myself For Yielding To The Overseer's Solicitation To Halt On The Evening Of The 29th April, Instead Of Travelling On All Night As I Had Originally Intended:

Had I adhered to my own judgment all might yet have been well. Vain and bootless, however, now were

All regrets for the irrecoverable past; but the present was so fraught with circumstances calculated to recal and to make me feel more bitterly the loss I had sustained, that painful as the subject was, the mind could not help reverting to and dwelling upon it.

Having given each of the horses a bucket of water, Wylie watched them whilst I cooked our dinner and made some tea, after getting which we again gave the horses another bucket of water a-piece, hobbled them out for the night, and then lay down ourselves, feeling perfectly secure from being overtaken by the native boys. We were obliged to place ourselves close to the hole of water to keep the horses from getting into it, as they were thirsty and restless, and kept walking round the well nearly the whole night, and feeding very little. We ourselves, too, although dreadfully tired and weak, were so cold and restless, that we slept but little. I had also a large swelling on two of the joints of the second finger of the right hand, which gave me very great pain.

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