248 LODGES IN THE WILDERNESS 



a lot he did not understand. But the track- 

 less desert was to him as familiar as my study 

 was to me, and he had been able to pilot his 

 wagon-ship straight to that spot — through the 

 inky darkness — with as little uncertainty as 

 though the sun had been shining. The experi- 

 ence of a lifetime would not have taught me 

 to perform that marvel which Andries did 

 quite as a matter of course. 



