He was careful in securing the little fat they had about the kidneys, with which he rubbed his body all over, and having finished this operation he filled their insides with grass and secured them with skewers.

This done he put them on the cart, and we proceeded up the pass, at the head of which we arrived sooner than I expected.

We then found ourselves at the commencement of a large plain.

The hills we had ascended the day before trended to the north, and there was a small detached range running perpendicular to them on our right.

To the south there were different points, apparently the terminations of parallel ranges, and westward an unbroken line of hills.