Chapter 10
WHEN IT WAS almost dark, Javes and Tali finally found a place to camp. It consisted of a little hollow between two fields where the runoff from occasional rainstorms had created a gully with rutted sides. There were no trees, only a couple of half-rotted fence posts with slack wire, on which he hung the cloth. It was not a very good tent.
Javes dug at the deepest point of the gully to check for water, but as he had suspected, the ground was bone dry. He filled up the bucket from the water bags for the animals to drink.
He and Tali ate salt meat, and a piece of stale bread each. Rations were getting smaller, and they would have to find or buy food soon, or trap an animal, skin and salt it. Tali said that she had trapped jackrabbits. Javes had a sharp knife for skinning.
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