The Doctor, though he muttered a few mourning exclamations on behalf of the lost Asinus, was by far too well pleased in finding that his speed was likely to be sustained by four legs instead of two, to be long in complying: and, consequently, in a very few moments the bee-hunter, who was never last to speak on such occasions, vociferously announced that they were ready to proceed.
"Now look off yonder to the East," said the old man, as he began to lead the way across the murky and still smoking plain; "little fear of cold feet in journeying such a path as this: but look you off to the East, and if you see a sheet of shining white, glistening like a plate of beaten silver through the openings of the smoke, why that is water.

A noble stream is running thereaway, and I thought I got a glimpse of it a while since; but other thoughts came, and I lost it.

It is a broad and swift river, such as the Lord has made many of its fellows in this desert.

For here may natur' be seen in all its richness, trees alone excepted.

Trees, which are to the 'arth, as fruits are to a garden; without them nothing can be pleasant, or thoroughly useful.