Our latitude was 18 degrees 44 minutes 48 seconds.

Our course was about N.N.W.
May 4 .-- We ascended the basaltic ridges, and reaching the table land, found it perfectly level, openly timbered, well grassed, but occasionally stony, by which our poor foot-sore bullocks suffered severely.

About five miles north-west by west from our camp, we discovered an extensive valley with large lagoons and lakes, and a most luxuriant vegetation, bounded by blue distant ranges, and forming the most picturesque landscape we had yet met with.

A chain of lagoons connected by a reedy brook followed the outlines of the table land, along the foot of its steep slopes.

We descended by a tolerably gentle slope into the valley, and encamped near the reedy brook, which must be the same as that on which, lower down, our last camp was formed.