Daylight, on the morning after my fortunate encounter with these good-hearted Mohammedans, dis closed a new type of scenery. The hills on our left were faint, low and faraway over a true sand de sert. The flat country around our spring was covered with briars and sage, and to the southwest on our line of march rose up a vast pla-1 of hare yellow dunes, devoid of green thing and throwing off tle puffs of the finest sand from their sharp crests with every breeze.
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