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The wound is n't fatal , but it has weakened him . If we can get something hot into him I believe he will be able to walk again . Did you have anything left over from your dinner on the trail to-day ? '' Rod unstrapped the small pack in which the hunters carried their food while on the trail , and which had been upon his shoulders since noon . `` There is a double handful of coffee , a cupful of tea , plenty of salt and a little bread , '' he said . `` Good ! Few enough supplies for three people in this kind of a wilderness -- but they 'll save Mukoki ! ''