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There was need of sighting it, indeed, for already the party had begun to suffer not a little The perpetual tra on themuch of the ti dust

The dried food, too, had started an intolerable thirst, and water was terribly scarce The canteens were now almost always eerly hastened, turned out to be saline or hopelessly fouled by fallen forest wreckage, festering and green-sli froreatly impaired their efficiency Their failure to take fish was also beginning to dishearten the day travel and trekking only by night, but had to give over this plan, for it would obviate all possibility of his sighting the lands of apprehension were biting deep into his soul

For the first tily borne in upon hioose chase, and that--despite his desperate need of the Pauillac engine--perhaps the better part of valor ht be discretion, retreat, return to Settleht still be tiht, cathen his deterain at all hazards

"It can't be far now!" thought he "The place simply can't be very far! We must have made the best part of the distance already What led so hard to gain! No, no--on we go again! Forward to success!"

Nextleft New Hope River--the party pushed forward again It was now a strange procession, lih their shields, their hands and faces smeared with mud and ashes

Painfully, yet without a word of complaint or rebellion, they once more trailed over the fire-blasted hills on the quest of the wrecked Pauillac

Hour by hour they were now forced to pause for rest So the forenoon Allan coe should be throay

Toward mid-afternoon he sorted out the tools, and kept only an essential minimum Now that they had seen no possible need for ammunition, he decided to leave half of that also