Yet in passing over these scenes, without one bright object near, an ill-defined but strong sense of pleasure is vividly excited.

One asked how many ages the plain had thus lasted, and how many more it was doomed thus to continue.
In the evening we sailed a few miles farther up, and then pitched the tents for the night.

By the middle of the next day the yawl was aground, and from the shoalness of the water could not proceed any higher.

The water being found partly fresh, Mr.Chaffers took the dingey and went up two or three miles farther, where she also grounded, but in a fresh-water river.

The water was muddy, and though the stream was most insignificant in size, it would be difficult to account for its origin, except from the melting snow on the Cordillera.