The trade comes our way.

The steamboats come here from the East.

Look at the country! No such farm country in the world! Why, in twenty years this town will have a population of 20,000 people.

It's bound to." How could it be?
How could such a locality ever be the seat of a city?
So far from the East.

And nothing here but wastes of sand! I left the place unnoticed and returned to the hotel.