The country through which they advanced was a wild, sterile plain--almost as destitute of vegetation as that over which they had hitherto been travelling.

It no longer owed its nakedness to the locusts, but to the absence of water.
They had no more time to search for pasture.

The sun was already below the horizon when they halted to "outspann." A "kraal" should have been built for the cattle, and another for the sheep and goats.

There were bushes enough to have constructed them, but who of that tired party had the heart to cut them down and drag them to the spot?
It was labour enough--the slaughtering a sheep for supper, and collecting sufficient wood to cook it.

No kraal was made.