4o The 5DijlreJfes and Adventures 



are we in the Regions of Darknefs indeed. 

 Every Thing that prefented itfelf to us 

 here, was, in Reality, very terrible ; nor 

 was there a Drop of Water to be had, lb 

 that we were almoft dying with Thirft j our 

 Feet alto were fo cut and bored, that it was 

 with extream Pain we underwent that uncouth 

 Walk, which lafted us twenty Leagues, 

 We were three Days and three Nights, 

 which were all one here, before we got 

 through, having had little or no Refpite in 

 all that Time. 



O n the Morning of the fourth Day, we 

 eame out on a large Plain, where were great 

 Numbers of line Deer, and in the Middle 

 flood a Tree of unufual Size, fpeading its 

 Branches over a vaft Compafs of Ground ; 

 Curiofity led us up it. We had perceived, 

 at fome Diftance off, the Ground about it 

 to be wet, at which we began to be fome- 

 what furprized, as well knowing there had 

 no Rain fallen for near fix Months paft, ac- 

 cording to the certain Courfe of the Scafon 

 in that Latitude 5 and that it was impofiible 

 to be occalioned by the Fall of Dew on the 

 Tree we were convinced, by the Sun's 



having 



