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Their camp had been, as is the rule, on the top of a sand-ridge chosen, no doubt, as a position suitable for watching the approach of others. A four-mile stage brought us to a nice little oasis a small area of grass, surrounded by ti-trees, enclosed by two sand-ridges.
Down the valley runs a deep but narrow creek which eventually finds its way round the foot of the headlands into a ti-tree-encircled red lagoon enclosed by sand-ridges. Near the head of the valley the creek splits; near the head of the left-hand branch is Godfrey's Tank; in the other, just before it emerges from the cliffs, is the small pool found by Breaden.
Standing by the dry rock-hole we could see for many miles, the country to the North-East being considerably lower than where we were; not a cheerful view sand-ridges always! Not a hill or range to be seen, and yet people have doubted if this really is a desert! On the North and East side of the outcrop the ground suddenly drops, forming what appears from the distance as a line of sheer cliffs.
A ravine or opening through the sand-ridges, much larger than that in which our adventurers were concealed, embouched upon the beach, some distance below. It was the appearance of this opening that had attracted the attention of the two mounted men; and from their gestures Colin could tell they were talking about it, as if undecided whether to go that way or keep on up the strand.
Surely there was once the fort where the river joined the lake, and there were the yellow sand-ridges, and the low, green prairie and the wilderness. He had seen them. They were there, familiar to the pioneers, the features of a landscape where was the outpost in the wilderness of the race which conquers.
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