35/86 But no water came, and in the morning one of their number Mr.Fish died and was left unburied on the barren rocks. No doubt his bones could be found there to-day. The prospect from this point was any thing but cheering. To the left a large lake could be seen, and from their previous experience they concluded it to be salt, and the valley they were coming to was very sandy, and the hardest sort of footing for men and animals as weak as those of the party were. It must be crossed before there was any possibility of water, and when across it was quite uncertain whether they could obtain any. |