The matter was accordingly arranged.

They left us at dusk, but returned to the camp at the earliest dawn; when we once more crossed the river, and, after traversing a very level country for about nine miles, arrived at our destination.

We passed over the dried beds of lagoons, and through coppices of cypresses and acacia pendula, or open forest, but did not observe any of the barren stony ridges so common to the N.E.About a mile, or a mile and a half, from the lake we examined a solitary grave that had recently been constructed.

It consisted of an oblong mound, with three semicircular seats.

A walk encompassed the whole, from which three others branched off for a few yards only, into the forest.