It was hard work for me; but for my unfortunate wife, who had hardly recovered from her attack of coup de soleil, such hardships were most distressing.
On the thirteenth day from Vacovia we found ourselves at the end of our lake voyage.

The lake at this point was between fifteen and twenty miles across, and the appearance of the country to the north was that of a delta.

The shores upon either side were choked with vast banks of reeds, and as the canoe skirted the edge of that upon the east coast we could find no bottom with a bamboo of twenty-five feet in length, although the floating mass appeared like terra firma.

We were in a perfect wilderness of vegetation.

On the west were mountains about 4000 feet above the lake level, a continuation of the chain that formed the western shore from the south.