Reaching the shore, we pushed forward about a mile and a quarter to the head of the inlet, and then crossed over on the ice to a cairn that stood near it.
A large beacon-cairn was built on an eminence, open to view from the south and west, and a red flannel shirt, spared with some reluctance, was hoisted as a pennant to draw attention to the spot.
But the mists still clung about the mountain tops of the Bennan and Cairn Edward.
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In the lee of the stone cairn a solitary Aymará was resting; his coarse, woolen trousers rolled above his knees, his feet bare.
Around the base of the cairn were the withered and frost-bitten remains of floral offerings and also the scraps of cigarette pictures, the latter, from their invariableness, apparently one of the chief delights of the gods.
After the cairn that marks the divide is passed, the trail leads abruptly downward.
But the cairn on the hillside has grown to no high monument.
Without waiting to hear the questions which he knew the two men were about to ask, he said: "This is the cairn left by Brainard and Lockwood in 1882.
A hollow aluminum rod was driven deep through the snow into the earth underneath, and within it were placed letters and papers, and a portion of the documents found in the cairn in latitude 83 degrees 24 minutes.
The cairnwas soon demolished, and the doctor took out a damp paper.
The doctor wanted to raise up a cairn on Port Leopold, and deposit in it a note indicating the passage of the Forward, and the aim of the expedition.
You can still see the remains of the cairn placed on the extreme point, reached by John Ross in 1831.
He and the doctor elevated a cairn on the exact spot where the experiment had been made, and returned on board at five o'clock in the evening.
Then Captain Crozier and Captain Fitz-James raised a cairnon Victory Point, and there deposited their last document.
There's a stir at Cairn Edward," he said casually, as he set down his wooden cup.
We buried the two Highlanders on the mountain top, and piled a cairn above their grave.
I have a few Scotch pebbles for you from the Island of Icolmkill--I am afraid they are rather shabby--I did not go near the Mountain of Cairn Gorm.
What was that building, friend; and what does yonder cairn commemorate?
I pulled up my horse and viewed the cairn and ruin with attention, for my curiosity was excited, and chance enabled me to gratify it.
As it was, it would never have arrested the traveller's eye, had not a huge cairn of stones beneath it intimated that this lonely tree had witnessed some scenes of bloodshed.
I cannot restore your father's life, but I can from the spoils of Ayr send a sufficient sum to Glen Cairn to rebuild the cottages which the Kerrs have destroyed.
Gins and traps were set in the streams, and Douglas and Archie were specially active in this pursuit; Archie's boyish experience at Glen Cairn serving him in good stead.
Chapter I Glen Cairn The village of Glen Cairn was situated in a valley in the broken country lying to the west of the Pentland Hills, some fifteen miles north of the town of Lanark, and the country around it was wild and picturesque.
My vassals at Glen Cairn have promised an aid far beyond that which I can command, and I trust that you also will extend your time of feudal service, and promise you a relaxation in future years equivalent to the time you may now give.
The demand was readily assented to, for the tenants of Aberfilly were no less delighted than those of Glen Cairn to escape from the rule of the Kerrs.
But like enough this morning, if well enough to give orders, he may be sending down to Glen Cairn to see if I have returned, and may burn the hold over my mother's head.
If we succeed, then I shall regain my own, and shall turn the tables on the Kerrs, and will rebuild Glen Cairn twice as strong as before.
Half riding in the cart and half walking by turns, the party reached Glen Cairn late in the afternoon.
Before night all the vassals of the estate came in, and Glen Cairn and the village was a scene of great enthusiasm.
Therefore the lads of Glen Cairn entered heart and soul into the projects of their "young chief," for so they regarded Archie, and strove their best to acquire some of the knowledge of the use of sword and pike which he possessed.
Some scattered blocks had been collected at the highest point, and a cairn built.
It is a rude cairn of rough stone, thrown together with little effort at regularity.
You’ll cross Soyland, sighting by a large cairn you’ll see on Brotherton Head.
A little way before her Soyland seemed to end where the top of a mountain-ash showed over an edge, and on the purple sunlit hill across the next valley she could see the grey cairn against the sky.
The cairn on the hill crest above the shaft and the birches was now far to her left instead of in front of her; the course that, but for her delay, would have led straight towards it was a mile-long pall of smoke.
Ye see, there was twa lads clappit amang the trees below the Wallace statue forenenst ye, waiting till it was dark to set a cairn net, ye ken.
There's a wee bit cairn there, ye ken, wi' a piece lound water ahint it, where they jaloused the fish wad rest himsel a wee.
Footnote: Inscription on the cairn on Craig Lorigan.
The dead man continued to eat and drink in hiscairn or dolmen, and the relatives supplied him with what he required.
Then Asmund had his chair brought into the cairn and sat there, and the cairn was closed on them.
Now, at the funeral, Thorgrim was laid in a ship that was placed on a hill-top, and all prepared to heap a cairn over the dead man.
Then he went to the rope and was drawn up, and the cairn was closed.
In the Grettis saga we have the story of the hero breaking into the cairn of an old king, and he found him enclosed in a box of boards--stout oak planks--very much as he had been shut in every night when he retired to sleep.
In the saga of Egil and Asmund is a queer story of two men who swore brotherhood with each other, that he who survived the other should spend three nights in the cairn with his dead brother, “and then depart if he liked.
The great tumulus or cairn is now represented by the little green mound in the churchyard, and the menhir or long stone, rude and uninscribed, has its modern counterpart much altered in the headstone.
The building up of part of the circle round a cairn was probably to block the way of the spirit in the direction of the village occupied by the living.
When the cairn was raised the two men who were entombed alive felt the bundle, and discovered that it consisted of a stout rope wrapped round the sword of Sigmund.
The body was placed where a great cairn was to be heaped over it.
By the fall of these stones a gap was made, the top of the cairn ran in, and the two entombed men crawled out.
And then Bobby took his friends to see the grave, and the cairn he had built over it, and for a little they stood, in silence and in pity for the nameless man who lay there.
And when the boats were loaded Bobby ran up to say good-bye for a season to the cairn and the dead man mouldering beneath it, and to the wide open sea, and the misty horizon out of which he had drifted, and then they hoisted sail and were off.
The first description seems to begin thus: I went with noble sportiveness to a land wonderful, yet well-known; until I came to a cairnfor twenty of troops where I found Labraid the Long-haired.
According to them this cairn steadily grows, as we may believe it would; and that, were it not for the guardian angels, the millions of little stones annually thrown at the devils would soon form a mass of equal magnitude.
This grim-looking cairn is popularly believed to note the place of the well where Abu Lahab laid an ambuscade for the Prophet.
Dark in the glowing light, their figures were visible till they reached the ancient stones beside the cairn of Marsail.
Almost every afternoon he went out alone upon the heights, though never again by the cairn where Marsail lay.
At the cairn he did not stop, neither did he drop a stone or even a pebble upon it.
It was to ask Sorcha if she thought that the person who took his hands by the cairn could have been Nial.
Ever since that day by the cairn Nial had kept out of his way.
