The road he was following at this moment was assuredly the one frequented by the caravans proceeding from the United States to California or Mexico; and there was no other road but this in the mountains.
I am perfectly well acquainted with the roads to which you refer, and the caravans of emigrants, hunters, and miners follow them in going to California, or returning thence.
The plain was here and there illumined by the fires of the caravans that had encamped for the night.
Although the country is in a terrible state of disturbance, caravans travel freely on the road.
The weather was favourable during our passage, and we crossed without any inconvenience (except that of a heavy mud) a part of the plain dreaded by caravans and travellers in winter journies.
Caravans thus travel from Asterabad to Astrachan without molestation, and in the full security of the property which they convey.
There are perhaps one thousand Persians who live in a Caravanserai, and manage by caravans the trade of their own country.
Dogs barked and children screeched when Baltic stepped into the circle formed by caravans and tents; and several swart, sinewy, gipsy men darted threatening glances at him as an intrusive stranger.
To draw their caravans I admit,' said the undaunted Tinkler, 'but not to ride on.
Then through the farm bedroom passed long caravans of camels, led by carnival Arabs, their humps changed into gigantic larders in which rattled all sorts of canned things.
But the meditative youth, whose mind was far above anything corporeal, and possessed by the thirst for knowledge, stealthily left his home and joined the caravans going to India.
As soon as the child attains the age of eighteen years, he is entrusted to the caravans which pass Lhassa, where he remains from eight to fifteen years as a novice, in one of the gonpas which are near the city.
There the news of foreign events was brought by the merchant-caravans and sought by the dervishes, who found, in their recitals in the temples and public places, a means of subsistence.
Coming away from the hop grounds, the caravans had to cross a river, and while we were in the water one day the river suddenly rose, the caravans were upset, and eleven were drowned, Comfort amongst the number.
There were three caravans and three kraals erected there, and as it was Sunday afternoon nearly all the inhabitants were at home.
The price charged for hauling freight to Santa Fe was ten dollars a hundred pounds, each wagon earning from five to six hundred dollars every trip, which was made in eighty or ninety days; some fast caravans making quicker time.
At that time the Indians of the great plains, especially along the line of the Santa Fe Trail, were very hostile, and continually harassing the freight caravans and stage-coaches of the overland route.
Footnote 55: The Indians always knew when the caravans were to pass certain points on the Trail, by their runners or spies probably.
The Indians did not reappear that evening, and the cause was apparent; for in the distance could be seen a long line of wagons, one of the large American caravans en route to Santa Fe.
The morning was bright and clear with a stiff breeze blowing from the northwest, and the Trail was frozen hard in places, which made it very rough, as it had been cut up by the travel of the heavily laden caravans when it was wet.
Armies undoubtedly followed the routes already frequented by caravans and flotillas of trading boats, and the time came when kings desired to rule as sovereigns over nations with whom their subjects had peaceably traded.
The Phoenicians were also accustomed to send caravans into regions which they could not reach in their caracks, and to establish trading stations at the fords of rivers, or in the passes over mountain ranges.
At this point the coast turns in a north-easterly direction, and is flanked with high sand-hills, behind which the caravans pursue their way, obtaining merely occasional glimpses of the sea.
Six months would be consumed in this journey, filled with hardships, beset by dangers from savage hostility, and only to be prosecuted in caravans of strength and determination.
Of the numerous caravans and individuals who adopted as their motto “Pike’s Peak or bust,” Billy and his party fell back on the latter end of the bold legend.
Over this Roman arch, which crosses the Meles river, all the caravans pass on their entrance to the town.
Probably he had to look after her camels or help in her trading operations; and he is said to have travelled with caravans to the Yemen and to Syria.
Chinese had heard of India, their power had spread across Tibet and into Western Turkestan, and they were trading by camel caravans with Persia and the western world.
They cheerfully told us that many caravans have been robbed here, and men murdered; pleasant news for us.
The caravans take twenty-five days on the journey to Saihut, and five to Makalla; they go also to Nejd, but we could not find out how long they take.
Already caravans were astir, and we passed lines of laden camels now almost at the end of the long journey from Outer Mongolia, whither we were bound.
So the Gobi caravans start about three or four o'clock in the afternoon and march until one or two the next morning.
Last year the first caravans left Feng-chen with wireless equipment for the eighteen hundred mile journey across Mongolia to Urumchi in the very heart of central Asia.
The winter traffic was almost ended, and the camels would not be replaced by cart caravansuntil the grass was long enough to provide adequate food for oxen and horses.
Just as we pitch our tents and make ourselves at home, so great caravans arrive with tired, laden camels.
Sometimes the caravans wait for several days to rest their animals and let them feed; sometimes they vanish in the first gray light of dawn.
The former is at the far end of an enormous compound filled with camelcaravans or loaded carts.
There is little water in this region except surface ponds, which are usually dry in summer, and caravans depend upon wells.
In a few weeks they would leave the trail to ox and pony caravans and spend the hot months in idleness, storing quantities of fat in their great hump reservoirs.
But the caravans crossing the El-Khali would carry this gold in bricks for the great west trade.
He'd been North to the Kangai where they used to get the gold that the caravans carried across the Shamo, and he'd followed the old trails South to the great wall.
That put another notion into Tavor's head; these treasure caravans must have crossed the immense Sandy Desert of El-Khali.
You see the great gold caravans used to cross it, three thousand years ago.
And this notion developed another; if one were seeking the wreck of any one of these treasure caravans he would be more likely to find it in the El-Khali than in the Shamo.
Two caravans belonging to a British trader were yesterday interfered with by a band of Cossacks.
The rule of Dost Mahomed, compared with what had gone before, was a boon to Afghanistan; merchants and caravanscould travel with some amount of safety through his dominions.
This was crowded with people, and caravans of camels and pack-mules from Kabul and Bokhara.
We heard that almost every yearcaravans proceeded from Tang-Keou-Eul, and penetrated into the very heart of Thibet.
The caravans are compelled to lengthen this route considerably, in order to reach a secure passage across the great river Kin-Cha-Kiang.
The consumption of the article in Thibet itself is very large, and the caravans export considerable quantities of it to Northern China and Tartary.
No one can form a notion of the enormous sums which the Tartar caravans bring him every year.
We were installed at Kounboum on the sixth of the first moon, and already numerous caravans of pilgrims were arriving by every road that led to the Lamasery.
It is all but impossible to buy this article unadulterated, except from the caravans returning after the pilgrimage.
There are in Arabia Petræa three narrow defiles, through which the caravans pass on their way from Egypt into Asia.
Whilst their fleets set out for the East, they sent into Europe, not legions and proconsuls, as Rome had done, but caravans of merchants, who subdued the provinces they passed through to the calculations and the wants of commerce.
For years after that the American Fur Trading Company of St. Louis had annually sent forth its caravans into Oregon and New Mexico.
Young trees sprout plentifully around the springs and along the winter water-courses of the desert, and these are just the halting stations of the caravans and their routes of travel.
The two Caravans remained astounded, silent, plunged in the deepest despair, while Braux rubbed his hands and sipped his coffee gleefully.
Chenet also took his departure, leaving the Caravans alone, face to face.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caravans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
