FIND WATER. 
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cliffs along which our course lay. After travelling 
two and a half miles, however, we were cheered and 
encouraged by the sight of sandy hills, and a low 
coast stretching beyond the cliffs to the south-west, 
though they were still some distance from us. At 
ten miles from where we had slept, a native road led 
us down a very steep part of the cliffs, and we de- 
scended to the beach. The wretched horses could 
scarcely move, it was with the greatest difficulty we 
got them down the hill, and now, although within 
sight of our goal, I feared two of them would never 
reach it. By perseverance we still got them slowly 
along, for tivo miles from the base of the cliffs, and 
then turning in among the sand-drifts, to our great 
joy and relief, found a place where the natives had 
dug for water ; thus at twelve o’clock on the seventh 
day since leaving the last depot, we were again 
encamped at water, after having crossed 150 miles 
of a rocky, barren, and scrubby table land. 
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