For two or three hours we remained in, under the protection of the rock, without clothes, and occasionally bathing to cool ourselves.

The native boy and I derived great advantage from thus dipping in the sea, but it was a long time before I could induce the man to follow our example, either by persuasion or threats; his courage had failed him, and he lay moaning like a child.
At last I succeeded in getting him to strip and bathe, and he at once found the benefit of it, becoming in a short time comparatively cool and comfortable.

We then each had a little more tea, and afterwards attempted to dig for water among the sand-hills.

The sand, however, was so loose, that it ran in faster than we could throw it out, and we were obliged to give up the attempt.
As the afternoon was far advanced, we saddled the horses, and pushed on again for five miles, hoping, but in vain, to find a little grass.

At night we halted among the sandy ridges behind the seashore, and after giving the horses four quarts of oats and a bucket of water a-piece, we were obliged to tie them up, there not being a blade of grass anywhere about.