There were men with gray hairs and sober behavior; men who could bow meekly under the chastening rod; but the antics of the juvenile group, in which we are mainly interested, were grave and decorous compared with the abandoned, delirious joy of these grave men as they reached the recesses of a swamp that denied admission to all save practiced explorers.

He is egotist enough to hope that the present "blazing of the track," inadequate and feeble though it be, may induce other and better equipped explorers to follow.

Eyre, however, won for himself well-deserved honour for courage and perseverance, in as exacting circumstances as ever beset a solitary explorer.

We thus see how the arid belt of the middle country had defied three different explorers Warburton, Gosse, and Giles one equipped with camels only, one with camels and horses, and one who had relied on horses alone.

Now that wilderness calls to me, and, the first chance that offers, I'm going to turn explorer.

Like the other parties of returning explorers, they found this portion of their journey extremely distressing; and they suffered much from sore feet, and also from want of food, until they came on a gang of buffaloes, and killed two.

That he had intended to destroy the explorers was beyond question.

A little steamer, the "My Robert," enabled the explorers to ascend the great river by the Rongone.

I'll never get done envying those early explorers; how I wish I could have been with them!"

E.J. Eyre and Sir Thomas Mitchell, both experienced Australian explorers.

The narrative of Thomas Hughes, the well-known English author, whose favorite subjects were manly men and their characteristic deeds, follows the explorer on the first of his famous journeys in the Zambesi Basin.

From its summit he obtained an extensive but depressing view, such as too often greeted the explorer at that time and in that part of Australia.

When Livingstone went home, after his third journey, his fellow-countrymen crowded to see and hear the explorer, who had added more facts to geographical knowledge than any other man of his time.

The Survey Department might well be proud of holding in its ranks two such adventurous and accomplished explorers as Major Holdich and Mr. McNair.

The deep interest which in the natives always succeeds to the discovery of this necessary article, must strongly impress the explorer, who will ever afterwards look upon streams, even in other countries, with far different feelings from any before experienced.

But the investigation of science ardently pursued is more likely to tend to isolate the explorer from his kind than the poetical contemplation of nature, for the simple reason that the scientist's business is not primarily with emotion but with concrete fact; while to the poet the emotions of love and friendship, of patriotism and duty, will all tend to be the object of impassioned speculation too.

" "I know a few explorers by name," I said, anticipating a yarn.

This was the course followed when Amilcar had been directed to try to meet the explorers who in 1909 came down the Gy-Parana.

I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.

As the tropical twilight fell upon the valley we came to one of the strange stone structures that are to be found in the Tongan and Cook groups, and which have puzzled explorers who have sought in vain to find a reason for their construction or an explanation of the methods by which a savage people lifted the huge blocks of rock into position.

In fact, in such a work as this, one cannot hope for success unless he seek the assistance of those who remembered the explorers in life, or have heard their friends and relatives talk familiarly of them.

Long Knoll is the monarch of this miniature range and well repays the explorer who climbs to its summit with a most delightful view.

They were very fat, but emitted such an intolerable odour that it would require even an explorer to be hard pressed before he could make a supper of them, either roasted or boiled.

So they went into camp and sent explorers out to investigate and find a crossing if possible.

The changes in that mental picture of our environment made for instance by the discovery of America, or the ascertainment of the true movements of the nearer heavenly bodies, exercised an influence on men's general conception of their place in the universe, which proved ultimately to be more important than their immediate effect in stimulating explorers and improving the art of navigation.