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

He climbed the highest mountain in those parts, and built a cairn on the summit, in which he hid a powder-horn with a writing within.

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

No two men could be less alikeGeorge Wilson with a bright, alert, nimble mind; Cairns with an intellect massive like his bodily frame, and characterised chiefly by strength and momentum; and yet the two fitted into each other, and when they really got to know each other it might truly be said of them that the love between them was wonderful, passing the love of women.

We have passed the last cairn before the depôt, the track is clear ahead, the weather fair, the wind helpful, the gradient downwith any luck we should pick up our depôt in the middle of the morning march.

In the light of the fire they stood with hands joined, and the little man, too, got to his feet, helping himself up by the cairn against which he had been leaning.

It came out of the cairn to its master to be helped.

A flash of lightning revealed a lofty cairn above his head.