Bheir_. In those parts in which loose sand had become
accumulated, it not only formed banks, but every bush was submerged in
it. The fresh sand must be derived from decomposition of the hard level
plain by the action of the air: yet there should be a regular gradation
in size of the waves; those nearest the windward side of the desert ought
to be the smallest. Rock pigeon of Loodianah seen.

There are two ghurrees or forts at the halting place, both small; the
water is tolerable. The chief trees are Salvadora and _Rairoo_.

_24th and 25th_.--Left in the evening and marched all night through
the desert, which commences within two miles of Rogan, and towards which
place vegetation gradually becomes more scarce until it disappears
entirely. This sandy waste is upwards of twenty miles in extent: in the
direction we traversed it, NW. or NNW., it is almost totally deprived of
vegetation; one or two plants, such as Salsoloid, being alone observable
near its borders. The surface is generally quite flat, in some places
cut up by beds of small streams: the surface is firm, and bears marks of
inundation: tracks of camels, etc. being indented. We reached Bushore at
5.5 A.M.; the camels performed twenty-six miles in ten hours. We halted
for four hours in the centre of the desert and tried to sleep but the
cold was too great, striking up as it were from the ground. The camels
marched through without halting, and we suffered only one loss amongst
them next day. The occurrence of this peculiar desert is unaccountable,
especially its almost absolute privation of vegetation; for many other
places, equally dry, have their peculiar plants, such as Salsola,
Chenopodium, _Furas_, _Rairo_, _Ukkoo_, _Kureel_.

_25th_.--Bushore is a miserable place, consisting of the usual mud houses
and defences: the adjacent nullah does not invite attention; it is
however the only seat of wells, which, as in all this country since
leaving Rogan, are of small diameter, from thirty to forty feet deep, and
contain very little water, which also is rather brackish and well
impregnated with sand. The surrounding country is so barren that it may
be called a desert, while the desert itself may be called the desert of
deserts. I should mention that this ceases first to the west, in which
direction shrubs encroach on it. _Phulahi_, Evolvulus acanthoides,
Tribulus, _Kureel_, etc. are found about Bushore, but the prevailing
plant is Chenopodium cymbifolium.