After resting for a couple of hours, I remounted and resumed my upward trip to the mountains, having made up my mind to camp out that night rather than go back without a bear, which my friends knew I had gone out for.

The afternoon was well advanced and the pack train started back and camped only a mile or two down the valley, while I stopped among some great rocks to watch the movements of the sheep.

You see we were a kind of a tramp boat, but what did we care as long as we got to camp some time or other.

The pulling was really awful, but we went steadily on and camped a short way beyond our cairn of the 14th.

Had they but camped a day or two when on the upper course of the Burdekin, they would have been relieved much earlier, for the pioneer squatters were already there, and the party would have been spared a rough trip through the Burdekin Gorge.

They ran up above camp a short distance, to a place where a few willow bushes were hanging over the stream, and pushing through these, they hid under the bank, and the willows above concealed them.

Proceeding up the left bank of the Victoria, crossed the ridge at back of Steep Head, and at 3.15 p.m. camped about three-quarters of a mile above it on the bank of the river.

Its work was shown in the great reduction of pestilential disease incident to camp life, in prompt aid to the wounded, in the establishment of salubrious field and general hospitals, and in improved methods of transportation of the sick and wounded.

At noon the river had divided into several small branches, and the character of the country did not promise the existence of water within the space of a day's journey; we returned down the river to the last water we had seen, and camped about three miles north-east of our last camp.

On account of Kaipi's weak state we camped that evening on the same spot that we had occupied on the second night upon the Isle of Tears, and at daybreak next morning we set out for the little bay.

When near King's Mountain they captured two tories, and from them learned Ferguson's exact position; that "he was on a ridge between two branches," [Footnote: I. e., brooks.] where some deer hunters had camped the previous fall.

There was not shelter for all the refugees, and some literally camped under the big ting-erhs (open pavilions with roofs but no side walls), their hastily collected household goods lying around them.

In this one, travellers from the bled are camping in one corner, donkeys grazing (on heaven knows what), a camel dozing under its pack; in another, about a new-made grave, there are ritual movements of muffled figures and wailings of a funeral hymn half drowned by the waves.

Now, if so be ye feels that way, let's git back to camp an' hatch up some sorter dinner Ever eat musquash, boys?" "What, eat muskrats?" exclaimed Jerry, in disgust.

The Kentuckians wrote to the Cherokee chiefs explaining that the attack was an accident, but that they did not regret it greatly, inasmuch as they found in the Cherokee camp several horses which had been stolen from the settlers.

He held fast his faith in God when Sennacherib and his Assyrian army were camping round Jerusalem; for God had said, 'I will defend this city to save it for my own sake and for my servant David's sake.'

The first day we shifted camp a kilometre and a half to the foot of this series of rapids.

In the meantime I can camp over there by that stream, eh?" "Don't know of nobody who'd stop you.

But still on the south border of Kansas there camped a landless and homeless multitude.

While camped here a lone and seemingly friendless man died and was buried.

Whereupon we took shot-gun and rifle, and sallied forth sure of fetching back to camp some wild turkey meat.

The first night they camped the Mexican murdered them both, took the money, and crossed into Mexico.

He thought he'd stop anyhow"right where he was." "Oh, no," says the Boy, a little frightened; "we'll camp the minute we come to wood."

When they reached the fort they found camped close to the walls a party of fifty dragoons and ninety riflemen.

It was not yet night, but we must camp in so beautiful a place as this, and though the food was poor, we were better off than we had been before.