sentences:  76 of the expedition's askaris and porters died that month of dysentery and starvation.Stairs had severe fevers, and in his delirium he imagined Thomson had arrived, and yelled for his revolver with which to repel the BSAC man; Moloney had wisely taken it from him.At the end of the January the new season's crop of maize was ready for harvest, and this saved the expedition.