14.They halted, half an hour afterwards, in a copse, some five hundred feet from the pagoda, where they were well concealed; but they could hear the groans and cries of the fakirs distinctly.
一个半小时之后,他们在一个
木林里停下来了。这儿离庙只有五百步远。他们不仅可以看到庙宇,甚至就连庙里那帮狂热信徒的喊叫,都听得清清楚楚。