Before we started I left a nine gallon cask of water in a small flat to ease the horse, and as the water in the tank had almost all leaked out, his load was comparatively light.

Still it was a laborious task to draw the cart over such a country.

Fortunately for us the weather was cool, as the wind continued south, for I do not know what we should have done if we had been exposed to the same heat Mr.Browne and myself had experienced on our return from the little stony ranges now about 10 miles to the westward of us.

A little before noon the wind shifted to the N.E.; I had at this time stopped to rest the horse, but we immediately experienced a change of temperature, and the thermometer which stood at 81 degrees rose before we again started to 93 degrees, and at half-past three had attained 119 degrees.

We were then in one of the most gloomy regions that man ever traversed.