At the spot where we bivouacked, we were surrounded by bold cliffs and steep pinnacles of porphyry.

I do not think I ever saw a spot which appeared more secluded from the rest of the world than this rocky crevice in the wide plain.
The second day after our return to the anchorage, a party of officers and myself went to ransack an old Indian grave, which I had found on the summit of a neighbouring hill.

Two immense stones, each probably weighing at least a couple of tons, had been placed in front of a ledge of rock about six feet high.

At the bottom of the grave on the hard rock there was a layer of earth about a foot deep, which must have been brought up from the plain below.

Above it a pavement of flat stones was placed, on which others were piled, so as to fill up the space between the ledge and the two great blocks.