It was too late to avail ourselves, however, of this providential discovery; but we were on our way to the place at an early hour.

There we broke our fast, and I should have halted for the day to repair the cart, but there was little or no grass in the valley for the horses, so that we moved on after breakfast; but coming at less than a mile to a little grassy valley in which there was likewise water, we stopped, not only to give the animals a day of rest, and to repair the cart, but to examine the country, and to satisfy ourselves as to the nature of the sudden and remarkable change it had undergone.

With this view, as soon as the camp was formed, and the men set to repair the cart, Mr.Browne and I walked to the extremity of a sandy ridge that bore N.N.W.from us, and was about two miles distant.

On arriving at this point we saw an immense plain, occupying more than one half of the horizon, that is to say, from the south round to the eastward of north.

A number of sandy ridges, similar to that on which we stood, abutted upon, and terminated in this plain like so many head lands projecting into the sea.