From the latter circumstance he reckoned, rather groggily, it must be about the middle of the forenoon; for not till about that time did the sun work round to the windows.

"Balaam? Balaam?" said the elder, groggily.

" Hobart lifted his head groggily, and pushed himself half-way up on his knees.

He lifted himself groggily to his knees and looked for the car, saw it bearing down upon him from the direction whence he had come.

His pack animals should be somewhere ahead of him, he thought groggily, and began stumbling along through the brush-covered sand dunes that bordered Furnace Lake for miles.