There was absolutely no shade--not a tree of any kind visible from the day we left Beila till our arrival at Dhaira about midday on the 31st of March.

Scarcity of water was our greatest difficulty.

At Noundra it had been salt and brackish; at Kanero we searched in vain for a well.

Had we known that a couple of days' march distant lay a land "with milk and honey blest," this would have inconvenienced us but little.

The fact, however, that only three barrels of the precious liquid remained caused me some anxiety, especially as the first well upon which we could rely was at Gwarjak, nearly sixty miles distant.
The sight of Dhaira, on the morning of the 31st, relieved us of all further anxiety.