... Winchester there and then, and never did I see a human being so delighted. Late into the night we sat and talked, and planned, whilst the Bushmen sat round their camp fire, and clucked and chattered ... however, no sign of life; and not a sound broke the awful silence of the desert, as we breasted the rise. Then a vulture flapped lazily up in front of us, and another and another and a tiger- wolf ... cheery presence, and the reliance I placed in him cheered me enormously, and I realized that I, too, was hungry. And so we ate, and smoked, and slept, till nearly midnight; and then, keeping...