A dense white steam came from the creek bed within the arroyo.

Suddenly the weird cry of a wolf came up from the creek bank, and it was a bitter, lonely, insistent cry.

" That was enough for me, because I cared more about Skinny than I did about all the old creek bottoms and holes in the ground this side of Jericho.

Off every creek mouth and all along the lake the seal followed to prey on the salmon, and sea-trout and lakers alike swarmed to the spawning beds to feed upon the roe.

Then, sitting upon our canopied upper deck, enjoying the last of our city melons cooled with the last of our city ice, we looked out over what we supposed was but the first of many such beautiful creek-harbour scenes to be found along the river.

"I was a mile back in the creek swamp," he said.

Tulsa: from creek town to oil capital.

Yet we could not reach there, because a heavy mountain storm had turned a torrent into the creek channel, washed away the foot bridge, and overflowed the low land.

Sixty or seventy miles up the Stewart a large creek enters from the south which he called Rose Bud Creek or River, and thirty or forty miles further up a considerable stream flows from the north-east, which appears to be Beaver River, as marked on the maps of that part of the country.

Only the swift city-creek intervenes between this square and Kimball's, which is encompassed by a similar wall.

And most of all they seemed to be measurin' off solemn like and important the lane from the creek lot up to the house and takin' measurements, as queer lookin' sights as I ever see, and then they would consult the papers and atlas agin, and whisper and act.

" As the never-resting sun "forced" the Dawson market-garden and the wild-roses of the trail, so here on the creek men must follow the strenuous example.

I have quite as snug a cove, near the creek bluff at Clawbonny, and will build a house for you there, you shall not tell from a ship's cabin; that would be more to your fancy.

Then, it was nigh on to evening, we came upon a creek opening into the greater one through the bank upon our left.

Ancient pilings have lasted well in the James; and these evidently once belonged to the piers of up-creek colonial planters.

This Enyong creek region will give us all the work for Christ we can handle and more.

We drove on, with some word of this; and, eating what we had with us in case of famine, made our supper from biscuit and flask; and, before darkness fell, we struck the creek road, and turned southward,a splendour of late sunset gleaming over the untravelled western bank, and dying out in red bloom and the purple of slow star-dawning overhead; and on we drove, with a hard road under us, having far to go.

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

The sun peers o’er you wooded ridge and thro’ the forest dense, Its golden edge o’er the mountain ledge looks down on the stockyard fence, Looks down, looks down, looks down on the stockyard fence; And dark creeks rush thro’ the tangled brush, when their shuddering shadows throng Until they chime in the rude rough rhyme of the wild goburra’s song.

With his burros and some of our horses packed we could take part of the outfit up the creek trail, past his cabin, and climb out on the rim, where we would find grass, water, wood, and plenty of game.

Proceeding in a south-east direction to the crossing of the first creek, ascended the MacAdam Range, and steered east-south-east to the second creek; the course was then north-east and east to the head of the creek tributary to the Fitzmaurice River, and then encamped at 3.45 p.m.

It is probable, then, that before Custer could reach the creek valley the Indians had made sufficient demonstrations to cause him to swerve from where he would otherwise, and naturally, strike it, and work farther back toward the second line of bluffs, even perhaps as far back as Captain Godfrey gives the trail.

Now the bo'sun, foreseeing that it might be impossible to come upon water, had set the man whom he had ordained to be our cook, to boiling the creek water in three great kettles.

When we looked from Gadabout's windows next morning, a dense fog had blotted out all of our creek country except that which was close in about us.

At other villages along Enyong creek congregations were organized, and churches and schoolhouses were built.