noon
After a three-hour rest , they took up the march again in renewed spirits , the Masai singing and chanting eagerly . But distances were deceptive in that country of clear vision and high altitude . When they camped at dawn after a hard march , they seemed no nearer the trees than before , and the Masai and Indians went to bed hungry , Jack making what little flour they had left into flapjacks . By the time they camped at noon , however , the boys and Schoverling had brought in an eland , which they had found solitary . This staved off hunger , and without pausing to sleep the hunters set off again while the cattle rested . The country was well timbered farther ahead , and they rode toward this through scattered clumps of thorn-trees . `` There 's a lion , right enough , '' said Jack , as one of the tawny beasts bounded away from a knoll to their right .