Often they lie in such deep cairns of broken boulders that one never gets quite to them, or gets away unhurt.

Beginning at the eightieth parallel we constructed snow cairns which should serve as sign-posts on our return.

These cairns did not disappoint us, for they enabled us to return by exactly the same route we had previously followed.

We therefore had to rely on snow cairns.

" During the night, as our watches showed it to be, three of our men went around the camp in a circle 10 geographical miles (11.6 statute miles) in diameter and erected cairns, while the other two men remained in the tent and made hourly astronomical observations of the sun.

This tent camp served as the center of a circle which we drew with a radius of 5-1/6 miles [on the circumference of which] cairns were erected.

I was relieved, however, to find that all but the first-class passengers had disembarked at Cairns, further up the coast.

You take long sled journeys, you freeze, you starve, you erect cairns at your farthest point north, or west, or whatever it is.

With the Dachshund they approximate more closely than any other breeds to the shape of the badger, the weasel, and the otter, and so many animals which Nature has made long and low in order that they may inhabit earths and insinuate themselves into narrow passages in the moorland cairns.

These heaps of stones, in various places might be mistaken for Celtic cairns.

By SURFACE BURIAL, the remains being placed in hollow trees or logs, pens, or simply covered with earth, or bark, or rocks forming cairns.

I 'member one old sailor with rings in his ears" The David Cairns of twenty likewise gave all gladly.

Cairns was not so astonished that the other had been of uncommon quality in the beginning, but that his life had not made him common was a miracle, no less.

" Cairns felt that his companion suffered in this tellingthat behind the dark, the face close to his was deadly pale.

" Early the next morning Cairns awoke, doubtless missing Bedient subconsciously.

Cairns found that the pony was held by a tough wire, that led into the jungle.

It all dawned upon Cairns a second later.

Cairns was hot and courageous under the spell.

by Huntington Cairns.

By Huntington Cairns.

Huntington Cairns (A); 28Nov75; R619307. R619320.

by Huntington Cairns.

By Huntington Cairns.

Huntington Cairns (A); 28Nov75; R619307. R619320.

We had passed quantities of "claims" on the way; piles of stones like little cairns marking their four corners; and I wonder if in five hundred years the socialists of that day will scream and try to demonstrate that the descendants of those brave adventurers have no right to their bit of land, but should give it up to them, who only talk and fume and do no work upon it.