mpment. But those who came up late could get no wood; those
therefore who had arrived before, and had kindled fires, would not admit
the late comers to the fire unless they gave them a share of the corn or
other provisions that they had brought. 6. Thus they shared with each
other what they respectively had. In the places where the fires were
made, as the snow melted, there were formed large pits that reached
down to the ground; and here there was accordingly opportunity to
measure the depth of the snow.

7. From hence they marched through snow the whole of the following day,
and many of the men contracted the _bulimia_.[216] Xenophon, who
commanded in the rear, finding in his way such of the men as had fallen
down with it, knew not what disease it was. 8. But as one of those
acquainted with it, told him that they were evidently affected with
_bulimia_, and that they would get up if they had something to eat, he
went round among the baggage, and, wherever he saw anything eatable, he
gave it out, and sent such as were able to run to distribute it among
those diseased, who, as soon as they had eaten, rose up and continued
their march. 9. As they proceeded, Cheirisophus came, just as it grew
dark, to a village, and found, at a spring in front of the rampart, some
women and girls belonging to the place fetching water. 10. The women
asked them who they were; and the interpreter answered, in the Persian
language, that they were people going from the king to the satrap. They
replied that he was not there, but about a parasang off. However, as it
was late, they went with the water-carriers within the rampart, to the
head man of the village; 11. and here Cheirisophus, and as many of the
troops as could come up, encamped; but of the rest, such as were unable
to get to the end of the journey, spent the night on the way without
food or fire; and some of the soldiers lost their lives on that
occasion. 12. Some of the enemy too, who had collected themselves into a
body, pursued our rear, and seized any of the baggage-cattle that were
unable to proceed, fighting with one another for the possession of them.
Such of the soldiers, also, as had lost their sight from the effects of
the snow, or had had their toes mortified by the cold, were left behind.
13. It was found to be a relief to the eyes against the snow, if the
soldiers kept something black before them on the march, and to the feet,
if they kept constantly in motion, and allowed t