A conspicuous dark mount, from eight to ten miles off, bears 34 1/2, round the north end of which the Burdekin passes.
At ten miles came to a very fine creek about 400 yards broad, in one of its branches from sixty to eighty yards; broad water completely fills the space as far as you can see southward and westward.
We struck out as quickly as we could, and I think it was all of ten miles before we struck the Indian trail.
After following them eight or ten miles, I decided in my mind that there were not more than forty Indians in the band we were after.
The pace was carrying us across country at a rate of ten miles an hour, scarcely a word being spoken, as we shook out kink after kink in our horses or reined them in to recover their wind.
Promising to take the matter under consideration, he said nothing further for several days, his cattle in the mean time keeping a lead of from five to ten miles.
Within an hour the stars shone out, and after following the river some ten miles, we bore directly north until Beaver Creek was reached near midnight.
Ten miles was a day's move, and the different outfits kept in close touch with each other.
It was traveling at the rate of eight to ten miles an hour, not at a steady pace, but sometimes almost halting when the bottoms absorbed its volume, only to catch its breath and forge ahead again in angry impetuosity.
We started on the 11th with this intention, but we managed to creep over eight or ten miles of ground before we halted.
The valley was from nine to ten miles in length, and from three to four in breadth.
The drays had got so far ahead of me that I did not overtake them before they had halted on the river at a distance of ten miles.
I should run straight out to sea, and lay to, eight or ten miles off.
The first was that the army should march eight or ten miles up the Montmorenci, ford the river, and fall upon the rear of the enemy.
We have got another nine or ten miles before us, yet.
I would follow the river road for eight or ten miles, and then wait in some secluded spot for the first peep of daylight.
Our horses are unable to go more than eight or ten miles a day, but even then they must be assured of finding food, of which, in these deserts, the chances are against the existence.
They returned about four o'clock, having proceeded eight or ten miles.
The boats were much impeded by fallen timber: it was half past two o'clock when they arrived at the place where I intended to halt, although we had only gone between nine and ten miles.
After a charming journey of eight or ten miles, they entered the large and populous town of Bidjie, where the Landers first crossed Clapperton's route, and where Captain Pearse and Dr.
It was most mysterious that he had not fallen in with our line of route which was a plain, broad road since the passage of the carts; and had a direction due north and south for ten miles.
At ten miles we halted to allow the horses to pick some green grass in a casuarina scrub; and then, after riding two miles further, we reached our marked route, at about three miles back from Bullock creek.
After travelling upwards of ten miles we crossed the corner of an open plain, and five miles further on we reached the bank of the river Namoi, and encamped about noon.
Keeping the lagoon on our right we travelled as its winding shores permitted, towards the hills, and we thus made a good journey of ten miles in the direction of Mount Frazer.
From the fringe of palms along the coast to the damp hills north of Waimea, a distance of ten miles, there is not a tree or stream, though the scorched earth is deeply scored by the rush of fierce temporary torrents.
At noon the rocky island was near ten miles astern, and a cluster of four small islets appeared in the offing at the distance of four leagues.
On approaching Cape Leeuwin in May, from the north-westward, the current for five days was ten miles to the east; but at forty leagues from the cape, it ran N.
Ten miles south of it a raised beach again occurs 100 feet above the level of the sea.
Ten miles brought us abreast of the high land we had first seen, and six more to the southern point of a bay, lying on its south-western side, where the duties of the survey again obliged us to land.
At ten miles we crossed a well beaten native pathway, plainly discernible even then, and this we followed down towards the cliffs, fully hoping it would lead to water.
Here we encamped early, after a stage of ten miles, and were enabled to procure abundance of good water, at a depth of about four feet below the surface.
At ten miles we crossed a watercourse with many pools of brackish water in it, trending to a lake visible under the coast ridge.
A wagon and three men from the home ranch had gone after them before my return, and they were simply loafing along, grazing five to ten miles a day, carrying corn in the wagon to feed on the grass.
At the east end of my ranch another tract was located, five by ten miles, running north and taking in all that country around the junction of the Clear Fork with the mother Brazos.
I needed just that amount to cover a four-mile bend of the Clear Fork on the west end of my new ranch,--a possession which gave me ten miles of that virgin valley.
Then a part of the family went to Sleeman's house, ten miles away, and tried again to get him to let her burn herself.
The last eight or ten miles of Sir Colin Campbell's march was through seas of blood.
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