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light was struck and the residue of the night spent in extracting prickles 
from the flesh of man and horse 
“ July 18—At early dawn started again and had the good fortune 
to thread our way through — orrid grove without further mishap. 
A smooth partate: of baked ¢ lay, in which ste even a Cactus could 
we passed at a sweeping trot. <A beautiful ipachtiea of ‘selenite was 
: ee 
hours’ ride brought us on to an enormous clay deposit, with ar of 
thin bene oo So eed the margin of iy ancient lake. The Bok 
became graduall dy and ari 
ten snilek: Their sppekniiice , insi s were the little rdatittg 
was cheering Bat relieved the sullen reaivela pipe produced by the 
total absence of animated , beings. At 105 a.M. ached water, after 
thirteen and a half hours’ riding; horses much fag, ae ho ve 
half mad — nee ; water brackish and wa 
reg brink of the ravine. The fruit formed a welcome roa for the 
horses, and the “— shade of the scattering boughs afforded us some 
against the sun-rays; with blankets spread over them a tolera- 
ble shade was etducell; but afforded no barrier to the parching blasts of 
wind that came like the breath of an oven. I was driven to the water, 
1 rushes bent into a kind of bower and sitting haa to 
—* in the stream, I voted myself the presiding genius of the place, 
d dozing, rested — for an hour. 
A 5h inert P.M., started again, bipiak to reach the volcanoes by 
To lighten he burden of the animals, all ou A acper 
and extra wearing apparel, were left behind; aasay a6 oe 
3 and of water. Two black butes, betwixt mh eG 
us as 
: am of water, rising in a ravine but mot 
