"Wednesday, September 8. – I awoke rather early this morning, not
feeling over-comfortable from having slept in my clothes all night, which it is necessary to do on the journey so as never to be unprepared for any emergency. A small corner of my brother’s tent had been partitioned off for my bed-room; it was quite dark, so my first act on waking was to push aside one of the blankets, still wet, which had been my roof during the night.