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WATER ! WATER
!
H7
on our maps of Asia that part of the continent is nothing
but a big white blank. Our course for several da3^s was
towards the north-east. At intervals we would cross a low
ridge, behind which the stony desert extended for miles,
until we at length reached another slight swelling of the
surface. But not a drop of water anywhere, and to dig
for it in those everlasting gravel-beds would have been
labour wasted. But as the country still continued to main-
Watering the Camels on the Edge of the Desert of Gobi.
tain its aspect of dreary desolation, I saw that something
would have to be done, for for several days the camels had
not had a drop of water.
Here we were, then, in the middle of an arid and hopeless
region, where not one blade of grass ever grows. Should
we go back all the way to the Desert of Gobi, where by
digging we might get at least brackish water ? No ; it
was much too far, and the result altogether too uncertain,
for we might perhaps strike a locality in which there were
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