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Updated: May 15, 2025
Rations were short, forage was short, everything was short, especially the ropes by which the horse-buckets were lowered into the wells; which last remark perhaps needs explanation. All journeys in the desert are regulated by the distances between wells, which may be twenty, thirty, and sometimes more miles apart.
These narrators forming a camp group, with lean, black-bearded, olive-skinned Indians in attendance bringing water in horse-buckets for the baths, and the sight of kindly horses' faces smiling at you, and the officers themselves horsewise and with the talk and manner of horsemen only they made it credible. How real it was to them! How real it became to me!
At some of them we found the old-fashioned "shadouf," or native pump, which, clumsy though it was, helped matters considerably. Usually, however, we had to rely on horse-buckets, and it was any odds that our ropes were too short to reach the surface of the water.
The former was carried out by means of horse-buckets an interminable business, interrupted at frequent intervals when the men were shaken and torn by awful bouts of sickness as they staggered or crawled along the foul, evil-smelling hold. Feeding was rather easier and quicker, for there was little to give the poor brutes, even had they wanted it. So it went on for four ghastly days.
Two huge horse-buckets, filled to the brim, were set beside him; and he had cut a piece of an old broomstick so as to fit exactly to the width of the passage, across which he had fastened it, at about two feet from the ground, so that it must most indubitably trip up any person, who should attempt to run along that dark and narrow thoroughfare. "Now, Frank," said he, "see here!
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