stirring in the vast expanse around us; nor was there the slightest sign of animal life in this dreary solitude.
We put our ponies to a gallop and soon reached the two huts which have been erected near the foot of the Bromok for the convenience of chance visitors. Here we rested awhile to gaze with wonder and astonishment on the scene around us, one altogether beyond any conception we had previously formed of it. In the most open parts of the Dasar, where the loose sand has been exposed to the wind, the surface is traced with wrinkles or ridges, similar to those seen on the sea-sand at the ebb of the tide—an appearance which has obtained for this locality the name of Sagara wadi, or the Sand Sea.
The form of the Bromok is something like a cone, from the summit of which about a third part, or even more, has been irregularly broken off. Projecting from one of its sides were many irre-
