Having filled our water-bags, we left the camp at 6.40 a.m., and steered a course of north 200 degrees east towards a range of hills composed of jasper rock, the highest point of which we reached at 10.0.

For the conveyance of water two leather water-bags were provided, each holding five gallons, besides which each of the party was furnished with a water-bag of India-rubber holding three pints.

For the conveyance of water two leather water-bags were provided, each holding five gallons, besides which each of the party was furnished with a water-bag of India-rubber holding three pints.

More bullock-skins were fashioned into water-bags, and with their aid and that of a scanty but kindly shower of rain, they crossed the dry stage to Flood's Creek in safety.

They were still so far away that even a camel would have looked no larger than an ant at that distance, but they were assuredly human beings, two who were strangers to the desertfor the palm knew the people of the deserta man and a woman, who had neither guide, nor beasts of burden, nor tent, nor water-bag.

They are permitted to fill their water-bags, made of goat-skins, at the public fountains.

Some women seem to have set out with the idea that life's a desert for them to cross, and they've laid in a supply of water-bags accordingly,but it's the meanest weapon!

In silence the Master cast down his water-bag, at the bottom of the little, desolate valley of gravel through which the fugitives were now toiling.

She was lying beside her water-bag, seemingly asleep.

With bruised fingers he loosened the thong of his own water-bag, and tore still another strip from his remnant of shirt.

Shaken with horror, the woman and the man buried Lebon, loaded the remaining water-bags, the guns and food on to the one camel and dragged themselves away on foot, driving the spent beast.

The water-bag was gone, too?