"'...we spent the day botanizing. We were also unperceived.'
"'How we botanized! Do you think we shall reach Bir Hafsa tomorrow?'
"'Which as Bir Hafsa?'
"'The resting-place where there was such a fine stretch of centaurea for the camels and where we found the curious euphorbia among the dunes.'
"'And the spiny lizards, the crested desert-lark, the anomalous wheatear. Perhaps we may: I hope so, indeed.'" --Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 219
"'...we spent the day botanizing. We were also unperceived.'
"'How we botanized! Do you think we shall reach Bir Hafsa tomorrow?'
"'Which as Bir Hafsa?'
"'The resting-place where there was such a fine stretch of centaurea for the camels and where we found the curious euphorbia among the dunes.'
"'And the spiny lizards, the crested desert-lark, the anomalous wheatear. Perhaps we may: I hope so, indeed.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 219