If I hoped to make any discovery I would not ask you to leave me.

Believe me, I would that you shared the honour as you have shared the privations and anxieties of this desert with me; but I entertain no such hope, and would save you from further exposure.

I have not seen enough of this dreary region to satisfy me as to its present condition.

How then shall I satisfy others?
That Stony Desert was, I believe, the bed of a former stream, but how can I speak decidedly on the little I have observed of it.

No! as we have been forced back from one point, I must try another,--and I hope you will not throw any impediment in the way.