CHAPTER TWENTY TWO.
THE LONE MOUND.
Their route led them through one of those lovely landscapes which are met with only in this southern region--_a flower-prairie_.

They travelled in the midst of flowers.

Flowers were before them, behind, and on every side.

Their shining corollas covered the prairie as far as the eye could see.

There were golden sunflowers (_helianthi_), and red malvas, euphorbias, and purple lupins.