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evening to enable us to reach it on the following day. 
We halted at water as salt as the sea ; and Cupido 
preached ; after which we had much forked lightning, 
succeeded by what resembled sheets of lire, followed 
by thunder and rain. About nine at night the loudest 
thunder I ever heard rolled over our heads, but our 
people seemed not at all discomposed by it. 
31st. Early in the morning I was awaked by some 
extremely loud claps of thunder, which made either 
myself, or the waggon in which I slept, to tremble ; 
but after it was repeated three or four times, I fell 
asleep again, and heard it no more. After prayer, we 
departed before sun-rise, to push forward to water. 
We travelled chiefly over sand and low bushes. No 
wild beasts except two elks were seen, and only a 
few birds. 
A short time after day-light appeared, w^e discovered 
the track of one or two waggons, which made me feel 
as Robinson Crusoe did on observing the footsteps of 
a man in the sand, on the uninhabited island of Juan 
Fernandes. We concluded they had been waggons 
from Klaar Water settlement, that had come to hunt 
in the desert. We soon lost these waggon marks, 
when we travelled among long grass, which, with the 
sand, rendered travelling very heavy and fatiguing 
both to ourselves and oxen. At nine A.M. the plain 
over which we had been travelling for several days 
became narrow, the ground rising on each side. We 
named a range of hills to the westward, Society Hills. 
