But another invasion, much more modern, is to be feared, that of the sands, now that the saksaouls intended to bring the sandhills to a standstill, have almost completely disappeared.

His first act was to climb the nearest sandhill and to gaze out towards the offing where the pirate ship had been the day before.

The major tells me that the engineers experienced immense difficulty in fixing the sandhills on this part of the railway.

Eastward from it cliffy points separating shoal mangrove bays, formed the character of the coast; whilst in the opposite direction extended a bay, fifteen miles wide, over the western point of which we recognised the sandhills seen on our visit to this part in July, 1840; the shores of this great bay were fronted for some distance by shoal water.

It appeared that he had tried to scramble up a sandhill and had fallen back into the bush and dieda sad and melancholy fate for one so young.