It was only about four hours away, but a short trek the first day is always a good rule to follow.
Again, it was on the trek of March 8 to the Wangai River that we had caught our only glimpses of rhinoceros and lion--faint chances of making a capture, but still chances, and better than no signs at all.
But on the trekthere was no outlet for such a sentiment as annoyance.
This organization gave George pause, especially when he remembered that the Battery was a very trifling item in the Division, and when Resmith casually informed him that a Division on the trek occupied fifteen miles of road.
Early morning found us on trek in a steady downpour of rain which made our already wet clothes more and more sodden.
Everyone suffered badly from aching shins and thighs and very sore feet, so that next day, when the trek was completed to Ismailia on hot, dusty roads many men fell out, and we were a weary crew on arrival at Moascar Camp.
On January 30th all the animals in the Division assembled near our camp preparatory to commencing the trekwhen the aircraft alarm was sounded.
The transport started first for they were to trek the distance, while the personnel were to have the pleasure of riding on a train.
We looked more like a gang of Russian refugees on thetrek in a film drama, than a part of the British army.
Little did we then think it was the first move in our long trek into Palestine.
On the trek forward two men of "A" Company (Captain D.
The trek up the Rock River had not been good for him.
Also an unfamiliar name today is Michigan Territory as a term for the land north of Illinois through which Black Hawk and his people made their final trek from the Trembling Lands to the mouth of the Bad Axe.
By the third day of their trek southward along the Great River, the soles of Redbird's moccasins had worn through.
I did a short trekthat evening, and outspanned early.
All this was satisfactory, so, telling the boys to inspan the waggons when they reached them, and make as long a trek as they could through the heavy sand, we pushed on.
Most of those who took part in it will remember that trek when others are forgotten.
They remained unseen until the night of the 30th, when the long trek northwards began.
There came a day, however, when our fears were dispelled by an urgent order to trek back to Alexandria.
As it transpired later, this particular trek was considerably more civilised than any we had hitherto taken; we had, in fact, most of the ha'pence and few of the kicks experienced by our predecessors.
In the latter case, when you had succeeded in the superhuman task of convincing the orderly-room clerk that your name was next on the roster, there came first a longtrek across country to railhead.
Always our first business at the end of a day's trek was to ride away and look for the railway station, with its one solitary hut and the half-dozen tents occupied by the water-guard.
We were to trek to El Kubri, a post on the Canal near Suez, there to await train accommodation.
Well, when this knowledge came home to me, I determined to abandon this place and trek for the coast, though I well knew that the journey would kill me.
She wished to lay some flowers on the grave and take farewell of the dust it covered, for as we had expected to trek early on the morrow she did not know if she would find a later opportunity.
The trek touw is usually of hide rope, but hunters sometimes use chain and sometimes hempen rope, either of which defy the teeth of jackals and hyaenas.
In outspanning the order is reversed, the fore oxen being left to keep the trek rope tight till the very last.
On trek I could not sit down to breakfast without hearing the wail of some poor woman or child outside the encampment.
The Great Trek was really composed of various detachments which started one after another in 1836.
The Great Trek was similar to the emigration of the Mormons.
There must be an open country to which the sons of farmers, in whom the love of the life is born, can trek as pioneers, otherwise there is a futile division into smaller holdings, or a more futile exodus to the towns.
With the best will in the world to scrutinise Dutch legends, the Great Trekseems to me just that legend which can well support any scrutiny.
The evening trekwas in the old thorn-country, perfectly featureless, silent, and uninhabited.
The Great Trek set its seal upon the new countries.
To the Boer the Great Trek is the unrecorded but ever-remembered Odyssey of his people.
Perhaps the courage needed in the case of the Great Trek was less than in most similar undertakings, because of the cheering Scriptural precedent and the lack of that imagination which can vividly forecast the future.
There were thus certain well-defined reasons for the Great Trek in contemporary politics which, combined with distorted memories like Slachter's Nek, made up in Boer eyes a very complete indictment against Pharaoh and his counsellors.
In a sense, he is of a roaming disposition, for some Boers are on the trek all the time.
The rest of our trek to Yozgad was uneventful except for the upsetting of two carts, owing to reckless driving on the part of the Turkish Jehus.
The boxes were then locked, strongly bound with rope, and labelled very appropriately, "Trek Stores.
We had also friends in Turkey who were interceding for us; and on the trek it was more than once felt that some one at home or in Turkey was remembering us at the time.
It was for this reason that the above and later opportunities to make off while on trek were allowed to slip by.
He reminded his partner how at Yozgad one day he, being of massive build and great strength, had prophesied that he would stand the trek worse than any of us.
The trek cattle perished by hundreds in the Thirstlands of the Northern Kalahari, the flocks and herds, left masterless, wandered and strayed, and disappeared by thousands.
Again we had an exhausting trek over a burning sandy plain; the heat of this day was something terrible.
Thus miserably ended the last trek of Karel and Alida Van Zyl.
It was now three o'clock; the sun was marching steadily across the brassy firmament on his westward trek and we had no time to lose.
Instead of being prosperous on your own farm, under a good Government, you will become mere wretched Trek Boers, without a morgen of land you can call your own.
Upon a morning of early December in the year 1880, Arend Van Driel, the Trek Boer, stood upon his waggon-box anxiously scanning the plains for any sight of game.
There was nothing for it, either we or they must retreat, and having come all this frightful trek for the diamonds I felt in no mood to back down, even to Felis pardus in his very nastiest mood.
If Ndala is not content, tell him I'll inspan the waggon again and trekout of his country and go into some other veldt, where elephants are at least as plentiful and chiefs more accommodating.
The trek had set forth with the highest and most exaggerated hopes, chiefly based upon the gross ignorance of these misguided and fanatical farmers.
His waggon was refitted and overhauled, his trek oxen were ready and his servants at hand.
Your `boys' are all away in the veldt with the trek oxen.
If the Eskimo brought back money enough to buy many things at the nearest trading-post, the time spent on the long southwardtrek would not be wasted.
Their hurried trek back to Fort Good Faith long remained in the boys' memory.
In truth, the corporal's limbs were so badly swollen from the effects of the thongs and the hard trek immediately after being released by Toma, that he doubted very much whether he could walk more than a few miles more, anyway.
Should you wish to go to seek this mountain Umpondwana you must go alone, for we cannot alter our plans to trek there with you.
Now it is of little use that I should set down the history of this trek of ours day by day, for if I did my story would have no end.
I know that when we were on the great trek and I saw the kinderchies of others dying of starvation, or massacred in dozens by the Kaffir devils, ah!
But I pointed out to him that we had no horses, all ours being dead of the sickness; moreover, that the night was dark, and we could not trek till the moon rose, so at length he consented.
Well, you shall have them if you like, for I should wish you to trek to your new home in England behind good cattle.
I desire to ask you to go a three days' trek out of your march to a mountain called Umpondwana, whither this servant of mine, Gaasha, can guide you.
This was strange news to Sihamba, who had heard nothing of the whereabouts of the Trek Boers, so strange that she would not speak of it to Suzanne, fearing lest it should fill her with false hopes.
So Barma Shah told Hurdu to cut the day's trek short as soon as they reached a suitable campsite.
Biff and his companions found the equipment ready and the arrangements all made for their trek to the border.
For example, it was our custom while on trek to allow our personal staff, numbering about fifteen, three-halfpence a day extra subsistence money.
Our first day's trek was to have been a very short one, only seven miles, and so we did not start until four o'clock in the afternoon, having sent on our carriers and instructed them where to wait for us.
We rode the first stage of the journey, accompanied by our two ostriches, who seemed to imagine that we were going on trek again, and intended giving them the slip.
Why, I have frequently been more sunburnt after a week at the seaside, than I was by this long trek through tropical Togoland.
He explained that just prior to starting on trek with us he had married a young wife, and having regard to her attractiveness and inexperience he had, on mature reflection, deemed it inadvisable to leave her behind.
Consequently we drank tea when on trek almost entirely; either hot or cold, and flavoured with limes.
From Morcourt the Battalion moved by motor 'buses through Amiens to Talmas preparatory to a long trek on foot.
These were the last billets occupied by the men, the next portion of the trek bringing them to huts at Montenescourt, about six miles due west of Arras.
The first thing to do is to trek to Strathmuir and make preparations; the next to start upon the trail.
Then came the time for us to depart to the appointed spot over twenty miles away, most of which distance it seemed we could trek in the waggon.
So to-morrow morning we cross the river and trek for Natal.
Later on the Boer farmers prepared to trek into Natal.
Photo by Wilson, Aberdeen] It may be remembered that one of the causes of the great Trek was the restoration of their province to Kaffirs, thereby according to the blacks an independence that was not enjoyed by the Boers.
