I was allowing the umbrella to remain lost, but the men murmured, and with reason, for in this exposed region we stood in peculiar need of protection against avalanches; so I went into
camp and detached a strong party to go after the missing article.
The new elephants strained at their ropes, and squealed and trumpeted from time to time, and he could hear his mother in the
camp hut putting his small brother to sleep with an old, old song about the great God Shiv, who once told all the animals what they should eat.
One of us three--" he interrupted himself, and turned to the aide-de-
camp.
He had never before watched the routine of a seasoned regiment pitching
camp in thirty minutes.
He learned to sneak about
camp, to be crafty, to know what was going on everywhere, to see and to hear everything and to reason accordingly, and successfully to devise ways and means of avoiding his implacable persecutor.
You say you had the map this morning, and certainly none of them has been in our
camp since dawn, though of course it is possible that some of them sneaked in during the night.
He couldn't very well come so he sent me to meet you and bring you to
camp.
If there is disturbance in the
camp, the general's authority is weak.
On the following morning, July 27th, Fontenelle moved his
camp across the river; while Captain Bonneville proceeded some little distance below, where there was a small but fresh meadow yielding abundant pasturage.
It must be the light from the
camp fire the two men had built before they were attacked--Tarzan knew nothing of the presence of the sailors.
I think that the thing can be accomplished, for I was a guest of the raider's before I knew the nature of the man, and those at the
camp are not aware that I turned against him when I discovered his villainy.
We shall bury the child here, and you will return with me at once to my own
camp.
