to run uphill!

"During all this time I could hear our chaps hollering and calling out
to each other, sometimes the voices being far away and then again close
at hand; but when I had got up to the cocoa-nut trees there they all
were once more, with the same story of an unsuccessful search. Diving
beneath the brushwood and jungle they had peeped and peered into every
likely spot they came across, without finding a trace of water, nor even
the empty bed of what had been a stream in the rainy season. It was
evident that the valley we were in was too northerly for the rivers that
I had heard entered the sea mostly on the west side of the island; and
that to come to such we would have to make our way over one of the
intervening chains of hilly land lying between.

"The men, however, were too tired to attempt this now, for instead of an
hour, we had been nigher three searching through the forest and coast;
and, it being close on noontide, from the elevation of the sun, which
being in the zenith was right over our heads, I called a halt--all of us
lying down under the trees till it should get a bit cooler towards
evening. All, too, were so thirsty, and clamouring out so much for
water, that I and Magellan had to give in to their entreaties and serve
out another half-pint apiece, which we told them would have to last them
until noon next day; but still, this second allowance all round made a
serious drain on our store, for there being six of us now, and each,
including myself, having had half a pint in the pannikin before, that
made six pints out of the two and a half gallons the water barrico
originally held--nearly a third of the whole quantity. If we went on at
that rate, why it would only last for three days, or two more at the
outside, when, as I calculated, it would take us a week at least to
reach Majunga, that is if we could manage to surmount the mountain
ranges that I was aware lay between where we were and that port. I said
a word or two to that effect to the men, but they didn't pay much
attention to my caution, all being tired out and the majority falling
asleep as soon as they drank their allowance, without waiting to see the
next served out even, they were so drowsy.

"I tried to keep watch for a bit, but the exertion of walking about had
been too much for me too, and I soon followed suit in dropping off with
the others, not waking up until it was close on sunset, when the
slanting rays of the fiery orb s