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Picture to yourself a wide expanse of open land covered with flowers and grasses that spring two or three feet high in the track of the rains.
To the far west stretches a high mountain range, whose topmost peaks are ever clad in snow; to the east a river bed filled with a raging torrent at one season, and dry at another; to the south an acacia wood; to the north the open land, trackless and desert as the sea.