As far as I could judge we passed about a mile beyond the 28th parallel.

Our longitude by account only being 141 degrees 18 minutes E.The boiling point of water was 211 degrees 75/100.

The evening had closed in before we got back to the cart, but our course was fortunately true, and having given poor Punch as liberal a draught as reason would justify we laid down to rest.
It was with great difficulty that we got our exhausted animal on, the following morning, although I again gave him as much water as I could spare.

His docility under urgent want of food was astonishing.

He was in fact troublesomely persevering, and walked round and round the cart and over us as we sat drinking our tea, smelling at the casks, and trying to get his nose into the bung holes, and implored for relief as much as an animal could do so by looks.