Not a cloud ever appeared upon the sky, but a dazzling haze of intense heat spread over the scorched plains.

The smaller streams were completely dried up, and the large rivers were reduced to rivulets in the midst of a bed of sand.
The whole of this country is a succession of flat sandy plains and low jungles contiguous to the sea-coast.

The intense heat and the glare of the sun rendered the journey most fatiguing.

I at length descried a long line of noble forest in the distance, and this I conjectured to be near the river, which turned out to be the case; we were soon relieved from the burning sun by the shade of as splendid a forest as I have ever seen.

A few hundred yards from the spot at which we had entered, Yalle river rolled along in a clear stream.