Neither my wife nor I could walk a quarter of a mile without fainting.

There was no guide, and the country was now overgrown with impenetrable grass and tangled vegetation eight feet high.

We were in the midst of the rainy season--not a day passed without a few hours of deluge.

Altogether it was a most heart-breaking position.

Added to the distress of mind at being thus thwarted, there was also a great scarcity of provision.