Its banks are steep, and its fording very toilsome and difficult.
Fording the creek and crossing the timbered bottom of the stream, another magnificent prairie is entered, which is beyond the Missouri line, and within the Indian territory.
Numbers were drowned in fording the river; being hardly pressed by the French.
Infantry, cavalry, and artillery crowded together in disorder, the bridges could not afford a passage for the entire army, then en masse; multitudes threw themselves into the Bormida for the purpose of fording it.
Passing this and fording little streams, we went along a very narrow path, across steep slopes, on which maize had been planted.
Fording the Vilcabamba River, which here is only a tiny brook, we climbed out of the valley and turned westward.
I am writing this at seventy-four years of age, and as I go over that march through the snow, fording great streams in midwinter on that trip across the mountains, I am entirely unable to comprehend how we were able to endure it.
Pretty cold businessfording large rivers in midwinter with the temperature down to 15 degrees above zero.
No sooner had we descended than the fording of streams began again.
Fording it is ticklish business except at comparatively low water, and as it is subject to sudden rises, there must be times when it seriously interrupts travel.
After fordingthe river he called a halt at Colesburg.
The horses will carry our loads, but it isn't likely we shall ride except in fording the rivers.
It was nightfall before thefording was completed and the way lay clear before them.
The fording of a stream is of so frequent occurrence in a trip through the Carolina mountains, that one is apt to have a confused recollection of any one river or creek that he crosses, although few are devoid of beauty or wildness.
After winding through a beautiful valley, and a moment later fording the Mill fork of Catawba river, I found myself in the little village of Old Fort.
In the course of its windings, the road at length is crowded into the river and fording is necessary.
After a brief rest in the shade, in another hour and a half, after fording Nam Kob pretty frequently (making about the ninetieth time we had been in the water that day), we reached the sala of M.
From fording the swollen streams, from continual tumbles in mud and water, and from constant rain, we found nearly everything on the pack oxen had been ruined that could be--photographs and other things.
Once started, the resourceful pioneer found a dozen ways to skin his cat, as one man phrased it, and presently the falling waters permitted swimming and fording the stock.
Perhaps the first plow furrow west of the Kaw was cast when some plows eased down the precipitous bank which fronted one of the fording places.
They buried Kelsey of Kentucky--few knew him otherwise--on a hillock by the road at the first fording place of the Snake.
Ossaroo proposed fording the river, but how was that to be done?
As the river had to be re-crossed on the other arm of the bend, each carried his raft across the neck or isthmus, where a similar fording was made, that brought them once more on the path they were following.
Two of the cowmen who had forded the stream further down, now appeared opposite the main fording place, to take charge of the cattle.
The banks on each side were high and steep, making it far from an ideal fording place.
The fording of the river threw the hounds off for a time.
Stand out, John Whittlesey," he directed; and I found myself face to face with that rifleman of Colonel Davie's party who had been so fierce to hang me at the fording of the Catawba.
The sun was yet below the eastern horizon when we came to the fordingof a larger stream than any we had crossed in the night.
He told me all; how that now he was safe; that the mountaineers were gone off from the fordingof the Broad on a false scent; that Tarleton with four hundred of the legion would soon be marching to his relief.
We came to the high bank some hundred yards above the fording place, and lacking Dick's example to shame me to the braver course, I fear I should have recoiled at the brink.
The face of the earth was visible again; for the buffalo were now seen in small herds only, fording the river, or feeding upon the bluffs.
During seasons of high water, men, in traversing the plains, often encounter rivers which rise above a fording stage, and remain in that condition for many days, and to await the falling of the water might involve a great loss of time.
The river, when not above a fording stage, can be forded at almost any point, and good camps can be found at short intervals.
After fording a river, he began the main ascent of the mountains.
All along the roadside, under the foliage of the trees, or fording the shallow places in the rivers, swarms of these natives may be seen on their way to market.
We were crossing in a diagonal fashion, as the fording rocks ran in that direction.
Crossing was not an easy matter, as neither of us cared to attempt swimming or fording with alligators in the vicinity.
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