under the same conditions and reached Marienthal, seventeen leagues from Argin. The night was passed there, and at daybreak the travellers started again, and after a run of twelve leagues reached Kertsch without accident, but not without some rude jolting, consequent upon the "pulling" of the dromedaries, which were quite new to the business.
To sum up, Seigneur Kéraban and his companions, who had started on the 17th of August, had, after nineteen days' journeying, accomplished three-sevenths of the required distance—three hundred leagues out of seven hundred. They had, therefore, done well; and if they continued to progress in like manner during the twenty-six days still remaining—till the 30th of September—they would complete the tour of the Black Sea within the prescribed period.
"Somehow," said Bruno to his master again, "somehow I can't help thinking that the journey will end badly."
"For my friend Kéraban, do you mean?"
"For your friend Kéraban, or for those who accompany him," replied Bruno.
