direction, for about ten miles.

The first part of our journey lay through a most beautiful country.

The hollows along the river were covered with a dense sward of various grasses, and the forest was open as far as the eye could reach.

Farther on, however, we occasionally met with patches of Vitex scrub, and crossed some stony ridges.

A small river joined from the north-east, at about a mile and a half from the last camp, and also two large creeks from the south-west.