A rest after the fatigue of the last few days was absolutely necessary before we made a fresh attempt in some new locality.
(ILLUSTRATION: GLEN EDITH.) It is only partly a day's rest--for I, at least, have plenty to do; but it is a respite, and we can drink our fill of water.

And oh! what a pleasure, what a luxury that is! How few in civilisation will drink water when they can get anything else.

Let them try going without, in the explorer's sense of the expression, and then see how they will long for it! The figs on the largest tree, near the cave opposite, are quite ripe and falling; neither Carmichael nor Robinson care for them, but I eat a good many, though I fancy they are not quite wholesome for a white man's digestive organs; at first, they act as an aperient, but subsequently have an opposite effect.

I called this charming little oasis Glen Edith, after one of my nieces.

I marked two gum-trees at this camp, one "Giles 24", and another "Glen Edith 24 Oct 9, 72".