"Forfeited all right, have we? Well, I have found one way of humbling an Englishman."
"Eben, you ought not to have done it."
"Ought not? Why, I only regretted that we were not near enough to the side so that he would have fallen into the water."
"Hush!"
"You are not to have anything to drink, nor anything to eat, but hang me if I'm going to see you starve, so here, stow this into your mouth and suck like mad."
The kind-hearted sergeant pushed a piece of hard boiled beef into Allen's mouth.
Allen was too good a hunter not to know that the beef was prepared in such a way that, though tasteless, it nourished, and by sucking on it the saliva was promoted and thirst quenched.
After Eben had been served in the same way the sergeant laughed.
"I didn't give you aught to drink, nor aught to eat, but you'll get there all the same, and I ain't broken the rule."
"If ever I get the chance to remember your kindness, my memory will serve me."