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Updated: June 19, 2025
We hoped to reach the fort in two or three days at furthest, and we might do so sooner could we find water to refresh our steeds. Our own water-bottles contained but a small supply, but it was all that could be spared.
The Very Young Man waved up at her and shouted: "Be out in a minute," and then plunged into the house. Once inside he went swiftly to the room where they had left their water-bottles and other paraphernalia. He found them without difficulty, and retraced his steps to the door he had entered.
But that was not the mentality of the men in the ranks, except those who were murderers by nature and pleasure. They gave their cigarettes to prisoners and filled their water-bottles and chatted in a friendly way with any German who spoke a little English, as I have seen them time and time again on days of battle, in the fields of battle.
Among the three are two percussion double-barrelled shot-guns, a percussion musket, six horse-pistols of various degrees of serviceableness, swords, daggers, ornamental goat's-paunch powder-pouches, peculiar pendent brass rings containing spring nippers for carrying and affixing caps, leathern water-bottles, together with various odds and ends of warlike accoutrements distributed about their persons or their saddles.
"Every man has his rations in a satchel." "But water?" "Every man has his bottle well filled, my lad." "But when the water-bottles are empty and the food is done? What about feeding the horses? What about watering them?" "Yah!" growled the Sergeant savagely. "Call yourself a volunteer? What do you mean by coming here prophesying all sorts of evil?
Clean white counterpanes, and curtains, and napkins, water-bottles as clear as crystal, blue jugs, and mahogany furniture, added to the splendour, and increased the comfort, of the apartment. The warming-pan was in constant requisition, and a fire lighted in the room every day. The chattels of Mrs. Bloss were forwarded by instalments.
Ten miles away ran the track of the caravan where his herdsmen had found a traveler dead from the fierce heat of the desert. Yonder the desert and a dying traveler; here an oasis with living water. Then the sheik arose; he bade his servants fill two leathern water-bottles and bring a basket full of figs and grapes.
And, if some adventures are wound up and some mysteries elucidated by looking for and finding cigarette-ends, or incendiary water-bottles and blazing hat-boxes as on our last expedition, others call for psychology and for purely psychological solutions. I have spoken. And I charge you to be silent." "Silent?"
Here our animals got as much water as they could drink, and we filled our water-bottles. We then parted from our yellow friends, who said that, as they were ignorant of the country to the northward, they could not venture farther. Trusting to Jan's sagacity to find water, we proceeded in good spirits.
Singer: "We are doing a great deal of work!" Chorus: "May Allah reward us!" The Tommies' refrain was more picturesque. Imagine six men carrying a crate. Chorus: "I don't think!" Chorus: "I don't think!" etc. "Aller, Oller, Aller! Oh, Aller, Oller, Aller! Aller, Oller Oo!" Bully beef came along in the afternoon, and we had landed with full water-bottles, for drinking water was unavailable.
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