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we found the blood beginning to resume its circulation, and 
we began to walk with much more ease to ourselves. It was 
a dreary journey, but with the dawn, the rain began to abate 
a little, and we had the cheering prospect at the extremity of 
the plain to see what we were convinced was a real bush. 
This put “ life and mettle in our heels,’ and we had soon 
the unspeakable satisfaction to find that it was actually two 
large Karee trees, with large pools of rain-water around them, 
and plenty of fire-wood. But how to strike a light seemed 
to be the next difficulty, for none of us had a tinder-box. 
Our guns would have answered that purpose tolerably well, 
but to finda dry rag that would ignite inthe pan puzzled us. 
I tried a bit of my shirt, but it was as wet as everthing else 
about our persons; but by the greatest good luck one of our 
Hottentots had preserved a small bag of gunpowder in his 
girdle quite dry, a bit of which answered our purpose ex- 
tremely well, and after a good deal of puffing and blowing 
we had the pleasure once more of seeing a fire. The 
sight of the bright blaze made us in a great measure 
forget our sufferings of the past night, though it did not 
remove the pain from our bones, which continued many 
days after, and which, in all probability, will frequently 
return in the shape of rheumatisms, to remind us in our 
old days of the hardships we have undergone in crossing 
the Chue desert. 
After a refreshing sleep under the Karee trees, we re- 
sumed our journey, but one of our horses gzving up, we were 
obliged to leave him behind; sorry indeed to leave such a 
trusty and faithful servant, who had saved my life, to its 
certain fate of being devoured by the lions. We rode and 
walked by turns all this day, our progress being very slow, 
on account of the stiffness of our limbs. Indeed I had for- 
gotten to say, that, when daylight appeared, our skins pre- 
