The sun during the day shone brightly,--too brightly, for his beams were as hot as within the tropics.

The travellers could scarce have borne them had it not been that a stiff breeze was blowing all day long.

But this unfortunately blew directly in their faces, and the dry karoos are never without dust.
The constant hopping of the locusts with their millions of tiny feet had loosened the crust of earth; and now the dust rose freely upon the wind.

Clouds of it enveloped the little caravan, and rendered their forward movement both difficult and disagreeable.

Long before night their clothes were covered, their mouths filled, and their eyes sore.
But all that was nothing.