Mr, Park now perceived, that these men had only pursued him for the sake of plunder, and turned once more towards the east.

To avoid being again overtaken, he struck into the woods, and soon found himself on the right road.
Joyful as he now was, when he concluded he was out of danger, he soon became sensible of his deplorable situation, without any means of procuring food, or prospect of finding water.

Oppressed with excessive thirst, he travelled on without having seen a human habitation.

It was now become insufferable; his mouth was parched and inflamed, a sudden dimness frequently came over his eyes, and he began seriously to apprehend that he should perish for want of drink.
A little before sunset, he climbed a high tree, from the topmost branches of which he took a melancholy survey of the barren wilderness.

A dismal uniformity of shrubs and sand every-where presented itself, and the horizon was as level and uninterrupted as that of the sea.