...pure white sand found along the const at places where the great fossil bank receded a little from the margin of the sea. The supply thus obtained was very...crossed over, at various times, intervals of sixty and one hundred miles in extent, throughout which it was impossible to procure a drop of water in any...

...sixteen pounds, and we had still nearly 500 miles to travel before we could hope to obtain relief, BO I was again under the necessity of killing one of...country our horses suffered most severely, and on two-different occasions were seven days without any water, and almost without food also. From this...