About noon
I , myself , was in but little better plight but I could not bring myself to eat the uncooked flesh and I had no means of making a fire . When Woola had finished his meal I again took up my weary and seemingly endless wandering in quest of the elusive waterway . At daybreak of the fifteenth day of my search I was overjoyed to see the high trees that denoted the object of my search . About noon I dragged myself wearily to the portals of a huge building which covered perhaps four square miles and towered two hundred feet in the air . It showed no aperture in the mighty walls other than the tiny door at which I sank exhausted , nor was there any sign of life about it . I could find no bell or other method of making my presence known to the inmates of the place , unless a small round hole in the wall near the door was for that purpose . It was of about the bigness of a lead pencil and thinking that it might be in the nature of a speaking tube I put my mouth to it and was about to call into it when a voice issued from it asking me whom I might be , where from , and the nature of my errand .