At the head of the water they had made a weir, through the boughs of which the current was running like a sluice; but the further progress of the floods was stopped by a bank that had been gradually thrown up athwart the channel.

Crossing the Ana-branch at this point, we struck across barren sandy plains, on a N.N.E.

course.

From them we entered a low brush, in which there were more dead than living trees.

At four miles this brush terminated, and we had again to traverse open barren plains.