ABSTRACT
The same day, at eight o'clock in the evening. In the light of a lantern, within my tent, at a nondescript place where we have camped for the night. Very lonely all at once in the midst of a profound silence, very tranquil after the activities of the day, and reclining luxuriously on my camp bed, I take pleasure in the consciousness of the wide, dark expanses that surround me, which are without roads, without houses, without shelters and without inhabitants.
