In some parts there were fine damp plains, covered with grass, while others had a soft, black, and peaty soil.

There were also many extensive but shallow lakes, and large beds of reeds.

The country on the whole resembled the better parts of the Cambridgeshire fens.
At night we had some difficulty in finding, amidst the swamps, a dry place for our bivouac.
SEPTEMBER 15, 1833.
Rose very early in the morning, and shortly after passed the posta where the Indians had murdered the five soldiers.

The officer had eighteen chuzo wounds in his body.

By the middle of the day, after a hard gallop, we reached the fifth posta: on account of some difficulty in procuring horses we stayed there the night.