GOOD WATER 
away; the dogs remained fast asleep with their noses 
resting on their respective extended fore-paws. Another 
day during the march a veado (Cervus elaphus), a deer, 
sprang in his flight clean over one of the dogs without the 
dog even noticing him! Game was plentiful in that part 
of the country, and the animals were so unaccustomed to 
see people that one could get quite near them. 
My men went after game in the morning, and we did 
not start very early, in fact not until 10.30 a.m. It 
was amazing to see the amount of good water that was to 
be found on the plateau. We crossed a streamlet flowing 
south (elevation 1,300 feet), and shortly afterwards, upon 
gently inclined land, we crossed another stream, also 
flowing south. 
We were travelling due west along the foot of a 
curious range which stood to our north and of another of 
similar characteristics to the south. It seemed quite 
possible, in fact, even probable, that the two ranges were 
formerly only one, which had split, and that we were 
travelling inside the partially-filled-up fissure between the 
two divisions. The sky-line of the two ranges matched 
exactly on both sides: first a long hump, then two smaller 
humps, after that a more even and continuous line. 
On reaching an elevation of 1,500 feet we were con¬ 
fronted with a splendid view of a flat plateau to the west. 
By a steep descent we went down 300 feet to a river 
(elevation 1,200 feet above the sea level) in a hollow, 
reached by going through dense, tall grass and thick 
vegetation. A humble wooden cross by the stream 
marked the spot where a Brazilian had been murdered 
by Indians. 
Interesting flows and domes of lava were to be seen 
near the stream, after which our marching that day was 
mostly up and down campos with magnificent grazing, 
the general slope of which was from north to south. 
At an elevation of 1,400 feet, on looking back, we 
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