The explorers had reached the south of the Islands, and, having moored their little boats together, they ascended a hummockclose by, when to their horror they saw the kayaks were adrift.
But when you are out of sight in your tunnel you can dig right up to the top of the ground and make a small, round door, beneath a hummock of grass, or a stone, or a stump.
He was so far away that Billy Woodchuck sat up on a little hummock and watched him.
At four o'clock we were near Three Hummock Island, and steered so as to pass close to its northern point, in order that we might obtain a correct latitude for sights for the chronometers.
The next morning we resumed our course to the northward and passed inside ofHummock Island and between Keppel's great Island and the First Lump.
A hummock passed, although composed, apparently, of one piece of ice, was of two different colours, a deep blue and a pale yellow.
Two minutes after we were round, the floe came into contact with the high steep side of the cape, crumbling against it and piling up hummock on hummock from the irresistible force of the outside pressure.
Mr. Soper found a number of nests near Nettilling Lake, Baffin Island, on which he has sent me the following notes: A nest containing four eggs was found on a grassy hummock on the tundra bordering the lake on June 16.
When close by it wheels and settles lightly on a near-by hummock or "niggerhead.
One nest was a cup-shaped cavity slightly lined with grasses and sunk into the top of a hummock of moss surrounded by marshy ground.
Nan joined in Toby's loud laugh at this old joke, and pretty soon thereafter they came to the hummock on which the Vanderwillers lived.
She had learned the way to Toby's place, the main trail through the swamp going right by the hummock on which the old man's farm was situated.
I'll be right by the hummockwhere the shore line is.
Here she was lashed to a hummock by a hawser which three of the crew carried overside and hitched in a bowline of staunch hemp.
He crouched down as flat as he could on the big hummock and held his breath.
It led straight past the veryhummock on which Grandfather Frog was sitting, and he noticed that where the ground was very soft and wet, old boards had been laid down.
Eve seized her under the arms and dragged her across the trembling hummock to firmer ground.
She had slipped, or the edge of the hummock had caved in with her.
The guide broke his way toward a hummock of old ice forming an islet near by, and the priest half swam, half scrambled behind, till they crawled out upon this solid footing.
Soaked to the armpits he smashed a trail through which they reached the hummock where the others lay, too listless for action.
An insignificanthummock then blocked up the narrow passage.
Running straight out from behind the hummock was a furrow in the snow like the trail made by an otter.
His first caution was to secure Blake hand and foot, with his back resting against a frozen snow-hummock a dozen paces from the sledge.
Leaving Celie huddled in her furs, Philip rose to his feet and slowly approached the snow hummock against which he had left his prisoner.
He traveled close to Blake, with the big Colt in his hand, watching every hummock and bit of cover as they came to it.
Here was a personage of consequence--luckier much than these others following, dragged along on travois whose trailing poles came jolting over stone or hummock along the rugged path.
The other beasts disappeared behind a hummockof ice, and that was the last seen of them.
Another reason for being very careful on the way to the depot is that there is a big hole, 20 feet deep, just by a hummock on that slope where, you remember, the last flag stands.
We came upon them later; they were then lying quietly behind a hummockdown on the ice, and seemed to be quite happy.
At dusk we made fast to a heavy floe, each boat having its painter fastened to a separate hummock in order to avoid collisions in the swell.
Even in dense pack-ice, if the observations are taken from the deck of the ship or from a hummock or a low berg, the apparent horizon is usually sharp enough for the purpose.
Up came the hot breath behind me, and I leaned up against a hummock and stripped off a boot.
A hummock to the westward offered shelter from the bitter wind, the icy draught, that was soughing down the valley.
I was not what you might call a marksman in those days, and so I set a bit of [v]hummock about ten yards off as a limit where I could not very conveniently miss, and waited until the bear should come opposite that.
The island was in plain sight at the end of the road,--a rocky hummock of land, with two patches of trees.
His divinin' rod led him right up to a hummock in the middle of the island, an' they dug there, an' fetched up against the skeleton of an old dead hoss.
Upon a hummock of sand, with tattered robes of saffron, purple and of gold about his feet, there sat a youth.
Esquimaux, pointing to a hummock of ice, a few hundred yards in advance of the spot, on which they stood.
Grim delivered a tremendous blow at its head with his weapon, but his intention was better than his aim, for he missed the bear and smashed the corner of a hummock of ice.
Meanwhile Blunderbore had been bobbing his head up and down behind the hummock in amazement at what he heard and saw, and when Ben Bolt made his exit he came forward.
Clambering to the top of a hummockhe observed a long stretch of level floe to the northward.
This it did in a few minutes, and then they all rushed from their place of concealment towards another hummock that lay about fifty yards from the hole.
The wounded and startled walrus rolls instantly to the water, but the siatko, or harpoon, being well fixed, he cannot escape from the hummock on which the Eskimo have fastened the line.
On this they lift their canoes, and then bore several holes, through which they fasten their tough lines, and when everything is ready, they silently paddle the hummock towards their prey, each man sitting by his own line and spear.
Then he stepped down from the hummock and followed in the direction which the pirate captain and the two men carrying the chest had gone.
Suddenly he saw three heads appear above the sand hill, so close to him that he crouched down quickly with a keen thrill, close beside the hummock near which he stood.
They stood there for a long time, during which Tom lay behind the sand hummock watching them, and for a while the silence was uninterrupted.
They had gone about halfway across the white, sandy level between the hill and the hummock behind which Tom Chist lay, when the white man stopped and bent over as though to tie his shoe.
He waited for a while, and then arose and stepped to the top of the sand hummock behind which he had been lying.
He gave a series of terrific yells, such as he thought might pierce even to the corner grocery under the hill, and threw himself flat on his back on a gentle hummock that might pass for a post of vantage.
One afternoon I was threading a path which led through a particularly dense hummock to the bank of a wide, shallow stream, known as Dogwood Creek, a branch of the Caloosahatchee.
Four eggs laid in a grass lined hollow in middle of a hummock of earth and grass, in middle of marsh.
Nest a neatly rounded hollow, sunk into a mossy hummock in marshy ground.
Nest on a hummock of the tundra, near a small pool, lined with grass and down.
Their nests are made in swampy ground, often in the middle of a large marsh, being placed on the ground in the centre of a hummock or clump of grass; it is generally well lined with grasses and often rushes.
His feet sucked and sopped in the soft, wet earth, and now and then he leaped from a mossy root to a hummock of earth, from a hummock of earth to a mossy root.
