I left the camp with Flood, at 10 a.m.on the above day, judging that Mr.Browne was then about 42 miles a-head of me, and stopped for the night in a little sheltered valley between two sand hills, after a ride of 28 miles.

The country continued unchanged.

Valleys or flats, more or less covered with water, alternated with sandy ridges, on some of which there was no scarcity of grass.
We had not ridden far on the following morning when a partial change was perceptible in the aspect of the country.

The flats became broader and the sand hills lower, but this change was temporary.

We gradually rose somewhat from the general level, and crossed several sand hills, higher than any we had seen.