noon
Some of the men began to develop fevers , and if Ranjoor Singh had not fiercely threatened the doctor , things might have gone from bad to worse . As it was , three men died of something the matter with their lungs , and five men died of wounds . Yet , on the other hand , we did not desire too much time , because -LRB- surest of all certainties -RRB- the Turks were going to send regiments in a hurry to wreak vengeance . Before noon , somebody rallied the remnants of the convoy we had beaten and brought them back to bury dead and look for property , and they looked quite a formidable body as I watched them from between the boulders . They soon went away again , having found nothing but tents torn to rags ; but I counted more than four hundred , which rather lessened my conceit . It had been the storm that night that did the work , not we . We could not burn our dead , for lack of sufficient wood , although we drove the Syrians out of camp to gather more ; so we buried them in a trench , and covered them , and laid little fires at intervals along the new-stamped earth and set light to those .