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I wish that we had some quinine left. I am going out," and he rose impatiently and left the cave. Otter followed him. He knew where he would go to his brother's grave. Presently they were there, standing on the hither edge of a ravine. A cloud had hidden the face of the moon, and they could see nothing, so they stood awhile idly waiting for it to pass.
Indeed we had every reason to believe the ravine unguarded, although pickets were undoubtedly patrolling the east bank, and there were places we must go close in under its shadow. So intent had I been upon this adventure, my mind concentrated on details, that the personal equation had been entirely forgotten.
These tiny particles stung like needle points when carried by the breeze against the faces of the two boys. They had to stand still and cover their eyes with their hands. When the dust subsided they again hurried forward. At the edge of the ravine a fiercer gust than the first hurled up millions of icy particles. They glittered like a cloud of diamond dust in the sun's rays.
They found them at sundown camped in a ravine beside a rock, with their blankets up to keep off the wind, thawing themselves out before a fire. A high wind was blowing and it was bitterly cold. The lost people had not eaten for three days. Twenty men from the cabin dug a way through the drifts with their snowshoes and brought horses to carry the women back to the coloured man's roof.
Another voice answered: "Very good, Herr Leutnant, but in that case the patrols to right and left need not cross the plank each time; they can turn when they come to the ravine guard." The voices died away in a murmur. I craned my neck aloft. It was so dark, I could see nothing save the fretwork of branches against the night sky.
This man pictured here in disgrace and chains as a warning to ill-doers was the first thief in Egypt, but I am sorry to say he was not the last." After leaving the Temple of Kurna, which is situated near the cliffs that bound the Nile valley, our procession entered a narrow ravine through which the path leads to the Tombs of the Kings.
"How did he die?" replied I, gravely; for somehow or other I felt doubts as to the truth of what he was saying. Jackson did not reply till after a pause, when he said "He was out with me up the ravine collecting firewood, and he fell over the high cliff. He was so injured that he died in half an hour." "What did you do?"
He was interrupted in a short time by the appearance of one of his followers, who had come up the ravine from the bay below. "Pardon, chief, for my thus coming on you without warning; but I have tidings of importance to communicate," said the man, making a reverential obeisance. "What is it, Baldo?" asked Zappa. "Haste, I am always impatient of news." "It is this, chief.
The felling, however, was a minor part of the task. The heavy beams had to be carried from the bottom of the steep ravine up goat-paths to the level of the bridge. This was done in the old Egyptian way, by sheer multiplication of hands, with no aid from the mechanical forces.
The journey was resumed. Soon the travellers became aware of the fact that the path was sprinkled with spots of blood. At last they came to a place which was crimsoned by a complete pool; and looking down into the ravine, they could see two human bodies, one lying scarcely a hundred feet below them, the other, which had rolled further, half hidden by a projecting crag.
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