The point gains continually upon the sea. Every year a little more sand appears above the water, while the line of short shrubs, which acts as a kind of dam or breakwater, is also extended, and holds the new land firm against the encroachments of old Neptune.
Among these shrubs we built our camp, and here for some days we had a very pleasant and lively time.
The weather was delightful; we had no rain, it being the dry season, and we were not afraid of the awful tornadoes.
TURNING TURTLES JUST BEFORE SUNRISE.
CHAPTER XX.
OUR CAMP AT POINT FETICH—AN AFRICAN WATERING-PLACE—FISHING, BUT NOT BATHING—THE SHARKS—CURING MULLETS, ETC.—TURNING TURTLES—BIRD SHOOTING—A LEOPARD SPRINGS UPON US.