We are picking up last year's cairns with great ease, and all show up very distinctly.

We passed the "cairn where hunters found the murdered bairn," along a pleasant road to the Burns cottage, where it was spanned by a magnificent triumphal arch of evergreens and flowers.

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.

At the edge of the terrace he saw a little cairn of broken bricks, and under them a piece of parchment.

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

What say you to make for the top of the hills and find Studd's cairn?

For a thousand feet it ranges up, in rude sheets of brown heather, and grey cairns and screes of granite, all sharp and black-edged against the pale blue sky; and all suddenly cut off above by one long horizontal line of dark grey cloud, which seems to hang there motionless, and yet is growing to windward, and dying to leeward, for ever rushing out of the invisible into sight, and into the invisible again, at railroad speed.

A heaping cairn of round-bellied, rosy-pink earthen jars came steering past, poled by a naked statue of new copper, who balanced precariously on the edge of his hidden raft.

We have left another cairn behind.

It is good to be marching the cairns up, but there is still much to be anxious about.

I have before spoken of the heaps of stone which Captain King concluded were erected by seamen; but Dr. Wilson, in his Voyage round the World, mentions some cairns of stone on certain islands to the northward, not previously visited by Europeans, and which must have therefore been the work of natives.

But just as we decided to lunch, Bowers' wonderful sharp eyes detected an old double lunch cairn, the theodolite telescope confirmed it, and our spirits rose accordingly.

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

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

We'll walk up Feather-Cap, and ride up Giant's Cairn, and we'll have a sunset at Minster Rock.

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

Such a mortal too was Clooth-na-bare,[FN#9] who went all over the world seeking a lake deep enough to drown her faery life, of which she had grown weary, leaping from hill to lake and lake to hill, and setting up a cairn of stones wherever her feet lighted, until at last she found the deepest water in the world in little Lough Ia, on the top of the Birds' Mountain at Sligo.

Some howitzers of the 52nd Division were hauled over the hills in the afternoon and shelled the cairn so heavily that the post sought shelter in Suffa.

The Danaans, on the other hand, advancing from the plains of Meath, took up their station upon the hill known as Knockmaa, standing by itself about five miles from the present town of Tuam, on the top of which stands a great cairn, believed to have been in existence even thena legacy of some yet earlier and more primitive race which inhabited the country, and, therefore, possibly the oldest record of humanity to-day extant in Ireland.

Some kind people had substituted a cairn at last camp 27.

That unnatural light above, and this deep tranquillity below, which surpasses an ordinary cairn have already driven me to my aves.

Working on past 8 P.M. we just fetched a lunch cairn of December 29, when we were only a week out from the depôt.