flit, take wing; migrate, emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country, traverse the country; peragrate^; circumambulate, perambulate; nomadize^, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle; gad, gad about; expatiate.

I have barely instructed the officers stationed in the neighborhood of the aggressions to protect our citizens from violence, to patrol within the borders actually delivered to us, and not to go out of them but when necessary to repel an inroad or to rescue a citizen or his property; and the Spanish officers remaining at New Orleans are required to depart without further delay.

The patrol leader should be selected with care.

The leader of a patrol should carefully inspect it before starting out and see that each member is in good physical condition, has serviceable shoes, a full canteen, one ration, a first-aid packet, and that his rifle and ammunition are in good condition.

These men should not travel side by side, but as a patrol of two men.

A message from a patrol should always show (a) the place from which it is sent; (b) the time it is sent (date, hour, and minute); (c) to whom it is sent; (d) the message itself; (e) what the patrol intends doing after sending the message; (f) the name of the sender.

A message from a patrol should always show (a) the place from which it is sent; (b) the time it is sent (date, hour, and minute); (c) to whom it is sent; (d) the message itself; (e) what the patrol intends doing after sending the message; (f) the name of the sender.

Under (d) care must be taken to separate what has actually been seen by the patrol from information received from other sources.

Strangers are not allowed to precede the patrol.

Patrol lenders are authorized to seize telegrams and mail matter, and to arrest individuals, reporting the facts as soon as possible.

Unless in case of attack or of great personal danger, no member of the patrol should fire on hostile troops without orders from the patrol leader.

Unless in case of attack or of great personal danger, no member of the patrol should fire on hostile troops without orders from the patrol leader.

When a patrol is scattered it reassembles at some place previously selected; if checked in one direction, it takes another; if cut off, it returns by a detour or forces its way through.

Occasionally it is advisable fur the leader to conceal his patrol and continue the reconnoissance with one or two companions.

Any enlisted man who understands thoroughly his duties as a member of a patrol will understand also most of his duties when with advance or rear guards or when on outpost duty.

Thoroughness comes only by actually going out in the country and acting as a patrol.

In carrying out this idea the following scheme is recommended: Let four or more men and a noncommissioned officer act as a patrol.

An officer, whom we will call Captain A, acts as the director; the noncommissioned officer, whom we will call Sergeant B, acts as patrol leader; and the others (Privates C, D, E, etc.) act as members of Sergeant B's patrol.

An officer, whom we will call Captain A, acts as the director; the noncommissioned officer, whom we will call Sergeant B, acts as patrol leader; and the others (Privates C, D, E, etc.) act as members of Sergeant B's patrol.

"It was a general practice, while I was at Huntsville, Alabama, to have a patrol every night; and, to my knowledge, this patrol was in the habit of traversing the streets with cow-skins, and, if they found any slaves out after eight o'clock without a pass, to whip them until they were out of reach, or to confine them until morning.

"It was a general practice, while I was at Huntsville, Alabama, to have a patrol every night; and, to my knowledge, this patrol was in the habit of traversing the streets with cow-skins, and, if they found any slaves out after eight o'clock without a pass, to whip them until they were out of reach, or to confine them until morning.

Not long afterwards, meeting a patrol which had just taken a negro in custody without a pass, I inquired, Who have you there?

It was a squadron of the Garde Républicaine riding on the last patrol of the day round the ramparts of Paris.

At Picquigny, they were less than four miles distanta small patrol of outposts belonging to the squadrons which were sweeping out in a fan through the northern towns and villages of France.

Tim Tyler's luck; adventures in the Ivory Patrol.