We were then about fifteen miles south-southwest of Dunmanway.

Adhering to our resolution of settling for a few weeks in some village on the seaside, we purposed to substitute the Kerry side of Bantry Bay for the district we had at first fixed on.
The distance was about fifty miles, and we had to cross a plain several miles wide.

We swept over this plain with a rapidity that taxed severely our exhausted energies, and lay down to sleep on the first patch of heath we gained on the Bantry mountains.
We bathed our feet in a mountain stream, and having partaken of a slight meal, resumed our weary journey.

Night fell on us in the midst of a desolate bog on a mountain top.

We travelled several miles in search of shelter, first in cabins and next in haycocks.