While in the palanquin, however, the engineer had again relapsed into unconsciousness, which the jolting to which he had been subjected during his journey had brought on, so that they could not now appeal to his ingenuity.
En attendant, toutefois, l'ingénieur était encore plongé dans une nouvelle prostration que le transport avait déterminée, et on ne pouvait faire appel à son ingéniosité en ce moment.