" "The what?" "Little creek; call 'em pups here.

On the northern side the plain narrowed into a sandy creek with shallow pools, the flow of the water being decidedly from the northward.

After resting an hour and a half for dinner, we resumed our route in a south direction, across an extensive low grassy plain of red clayey loam, passing over a few rocky ridges at sunset, and at 6 p.m. encamped on a dry creek twenty yards wide, water being found in some clay-pans in the adjoining plain.

Now that the snow was gone they found that a narrow creek lay between them and the knoll on which the windfall was situated.

" In the afternoon they took two men and rowed up a muddy creek that flowed into the lagoon, but the factory was farther than they thought and when they landed dusk was falling.

Little islands cover the harbour of Brindisi, and form the narrow outlet from the numerous creeks that compose its capacious port.

Avenues of transportation abundantly penetrated the whole district in the form of rivers, inlets and meandering tidal creeks.

His long, red legsfrom which he gets his nameare for wading in the shallow, muddy creeks he loves.

But there were no houses back of the Himes place, the ground falling away sharply to the rocky creek bed.

This limestone country was well grassed, and thinly timbered with eucalypti of small growth; at 1.20 p.m. altered the course to north-east and followed down a gully in search of water; but though it gradually enlarged to a considerable creek and we continued our search till 7.0, we were compelled to encamp without water.

Far to the left a sluggish creek winds slowly along through the plain, its banks fringed with acacias and wild rose jungle.

Here the Sambre, a small, orderly stream, no larger or broader or wider than a good-sized creek would be in America, flows for a mile or two almost due east and weSt.

He waited for Joanne, and went with her to the tiny creek near the camp, where both bathed their faces in the snow-cold water from the mountain tops.

This I discovered, so far as my sight could penetrate, to be pierced in all directions with innumerable creeks and pools, some of these latter being very great of extent; and, as I have before made mention, everywhere the country was low setas it might be a great plain of mud; so that it gave me a sense of dreariness to look out upon it.

On one situated in an angle of the river on a wet creek bearing north I have deeply carved EVANS, 1st JUNE, 1815.

When all but the crew of a single boat had left the "Dolphin," the promised gold was sent, and then the loaded craft was seen hastily seeking the shelter of some secret creek.

The middle ventricle is a common concourse and cavity of them both, and hath two passagesthe one to receive pituita, and the other extends itself to the fourth creek; in this they place imagination and cogitation, and so the three ventricles of the fore part of the brain are used.

The memories suggested by the stones of the spring-house foundation and the old carvings on the trees; the sunlight, falling so softly into the hushed seclusion of the glade, as through the traceried windows of a church; and the deep organ-tones of the distant creek; all served to give to the spot the religious atmosphere of a sanctuary; while the artist's abandonment in his work was little short of devotion.

Oh! ’tis jolly to follow the roving herd Through the long, long summer day, And camp at night by some lonely creek When dies the golden ray.

The placid waters of the broad creek would have been pleasant to look upon if the level rays of the sun in his strength had not skimmed them with such a blinding glare, but the low, flat-topped hills that bounded them were forbidding.

590 Torn from our hut, that stood beside the sea Near Portland lighthouse in a lonesome creek, My husband served in sad captivity On shipboard, bound till peace or death should set him free.

A few miles to the east rose another range of wild and rugged hills; small lakes became more and more numerous, and everywhere the hunters crossed and recrossed frozen creeks.

"Shall I keep on working on upper Enyong creek or shall I go south to the Ibibios?

When several persons were 'ready', there would be a baptism in a nearby creek or river.

The shops were closedtrade at a standthe streets desertedhouses tenantlessthe oft busy creek had scarcely a boat moving on its surfacethe mosques were filled with the dismayed Moslems, whom poverty or self-interest had kept in the townthe Christian churches held the few Armenians and Chaldeans whom fear had driven to pray with sincerity.