Now, if you will kindly turn round, I will explain, also, what we see upon the other side." It was a view which, when once seen, must always haunt the mind.
Such an expanse of savage and unrelieved desert might be part of some cold and burned-out planet rather than of this fertile and bountiful earth.

Away and away it stretched to die into a soft, violet haze in the extremest distance.

In the foreground the sand was of a bright golden yellow, which was quite dazzling in the sunshine.

Here and there, in a scattered cordon, stood the six trusty negro soldiers leaning motionless upon their rifles, and each throwing a shadow which looked as solid as himself.

But beyond this golden plain lay a low line of those black slag-heaps, with yellow sand-valleys winding between them.