With Hal urging them they broke the camp and moved out at once. First, Colonel, may I trouble you for a littlecompassion? None of my men has had a drop of water since yesterdayafternoon. They were a dozen or so sailors, dressed inragged and faded robes and haik turbans. While one of the watches went ahead with the work of unloading, he keptthe off-duty watches busy.
A musket boomed, the pelletsrattled into the foliage above Hal's head and -sang off the tree trunkbeside him. It is such a shameful waste of a fine young life. She had placedit there on her last visit. Cornelius Schreuder fretted to go ashore.
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