He lay then and was quiet for a while and looked across the heat shimmer of the
plain to the edge of the bush. There were a few Tommies that showed minute and white
against the yellow and, far off, he saw a herd of zebra, white against the green of the bush.
This was a pleasant camp under big trees against a hill, with good water, and close by, a
nearly dry water hole where sand grouse flighted in the mornings.