Once I dashed into a herd of trekking game so suddenly, that a springbok, unable to stop itself, leapt right over me.
This letter I gave to a trader who was trekking to the bay on the following morning, begging him to forward it by the first opportunity.
On hearing this news we debated whether it would not be well for us to follow their example and, trekking westwards, try to find a pass in the mountains.
Two days' short trekking through a beautiful country brought us to some hills that I think were called Pakadi, or else a chief named Pakadi lived there, I forget which.
Then the wagons emerged from the bush, and they stared astonished, wondering who could be trekking in that country.
For the next month the expedition moved steadily north-west into the Kalahari, trekking with infinite toil from one scant pit of water to another.
And yet it struck me as strange that Dirk, whom I knew well--for he was a noted interior hunter--should be trekking in this veldt.
By the year 1855, the Transvaal elephant-hunters weretrekking very far afield in search of ivory.
Here, after the rains, they can range freely with their flocks and pursue the trekking springboks, and live the old wild life.
The while we were trekking by slow and easy stages.
For this reason I have always preferred trekking alone.
For the rest, life was pleasant enough as we moved along easily-- outspanning during the heat of the day for several hours--and then trekking on until dark.
When two people, trekking together beyond the confines of civilisation fall out, the situation becomes unpleasant.
The very fact that he is able to shake out his modest bag to the bottom spells "holiday," and in latter-day trekking holidays for the men were rare.
After twenty months continuous trekking in South Africa one is not sure that one's opinions on this subject fall into line with those of the majority.
The bushveldt through which we were now trekking was scorched by an intolerable heat, aggravated by drought, and the temperature in the daytime was so unbearable that we could only trek during the night.
For weeks we should be trekking over the mountains and desert east of the Turkish lines in the Jordan valley and the hardships would be very great.
Paul, from whom Avaloff had just received a letter, was trekking toward the Gulf of Enos with a young Greek waiter from the Maritza as guide.
The Boers had been observed from Ladysmith hastening away in a continuous stream, trekking North.
He thought that by trekking westward he would soon get beyond the ground they had laid bare.
The field-cornet began to think that he was trekking right in the way the locusts had come.
We were transport-riders trekking with loads from Delagoa Bay to Lydenburg, trekking slowly through the hot, bushy, low veld, doing our fifteen to twenty miles a day.
When the latter reached the Drakensberg, on his return, he found nearly the whole population trekking over the mountains away from Natal and away from British sway.
The trekking Boer followed by the British Colonial Office was indeed the strangest pursuit ever witnessed on earth.
It appeared that a party of Boers was caught trekking by the Acton Homes Road towards the Free State, and was in act of being cut off.
In the distance the Boers could be seen in frenzied activity inspanning their waggons, and towards the evening they were observed trekking northwards towards Van Reenan's Pass.
Others argued that any trekking that they might have attempted meant merely a manoeuvre consistent with their mobility to entice the British farther on into a trap from whence they could not have escaped.
We were trekking parallel with the Kolong river when a herd of blesbock crossed the track.
There, in front, a hundred yards away, though to the unpractised eye they looked much closer, because of the dazzling clearness of the atmosphere, was a great herd of springbok trekking along in single file.
There, too, were my own waggons trekking down the slope towards them.
He had joined a party of the emigrant Boers some years before, but, as I learned presently, had quarrelled with its leader, and was now trekking away into the wilderness to found a little colony of his own.
And I wasn't sorry when those devastating Twins of mine made their voices heard and thrust before me an undebatable excuse for trekking homeward.
Poppsy and Pee-Wee had been peevish and disdainful of each other's society, and Iroquois Annie had gruntingly intimated that she was about fed up on trekking the floor with wailing infants.
The remainder of his stock was under way, and, in charge of Eustace, was trekkingsteadily down to his other farm in the Colony, which was sufficiently remote from the seat of hostilities to ensure its safety.
The very fellows we are trekking away from, by Jove!
At two in the morning we inspanned; at sunrise we were over Klipriver and trekking past Ladysmith.
The laager inspanned and followed De Wet, who had just passed here, and after a few hours' rapid trekking caught up to him.
We were trekking along quietly one day when I observed a heliograph glitter on a hill about ten miles away.
Then I noticed a long column of vehicles and cavalry trekking over the hill to my right and towards the town.
The next day's trekking was very arduous, for the ground was dry and sterile, awkward pieces of rock, each big enough to wreck the waggon, protruding from the sand in all directions.
But we are, Dinny, we're trekking straight for one now.
Days of weary trekking across plains before they came into pool-strewn land, where the footprints of buffalo were here and there obliterated by the monstrous round track left by the elephant.
Cronje, who for two months had held stubbornly to Magersfontein, was reported to be trekking to the east.
Plumer with the Rhodesian Regiment had been trekking here and there and skirmishing with the enemy for seven months.
Their hereditary trekking instincts told them when to move and how to move, and their mobility had not at that period been recognized by the British Staff.
They were a community of trekking and centrifugal atoms, especially in the direction of territories in the possession of native tribes, and their own country, though sparsely inhabited, was not spacious enough for them.
Trekking across the line, and for a wonder gathering up no train as he passed, he made for that part of the eastern Orange River Colony which had been reoccupied by his countrymen.
Apparently the effect of Pilcher's exploit was to halt the march of those commandos which had been seen trekking to the north-west, and to cause them to swing round upon Thabanchu.
De Wet broke away, however, and trekking south for eighteen hours without a halt, shook off the pursuit.
For days enormous herds, endless flocks, and lines of wagons which stretched from horizon to horizon had been trekking eastward.
They had headed south as if for the Diamond Mines, and we were trekking west.
Rum that when the lightning killed the ox-team you should have been trekking north-east, isn't it?
I can say, since she and Sister Ignatius and Sister Tobias found me on the veld seven years ago, when they were trekking up from Natal to join the Sisters who were already working here.
Now we had reached the banks of the river, and were trekking up them towards the spot where it issued from the side of the mountain.
It was always trekking and then annexation and then trekking once more.
The general idea of all the mountings I saw was narrow axles and high wheels, whereas, for all trekking purposes, it should be broad space between the wheels and low wheels.
She counted the game trekking along the ridge till her mind grew weary.
Hickie's column was trekking through the Western Transvaal and down to the Vaal River without much result; very few Boers were found owing to the very heavy rains.
The woods on the right of the road were occupied by large numbers of Boers, who could be clearly seen, as well as a great number trekking away over the hills.
A few Boers had waited too long and now remained for ever, one with Mobsby's bayonet in him, whilst the others were trekking as fast as their ponies could carry them away from the cursed rooineks.
The ox wagons which take the hides and wool down to the railway bring back stores, building materials and so on; thus there are no empty wagons wasting their time trekking about the country.
In the past five weeks some of the horses of the column had done 500 miles, practically trekking every day.
A very good view was obtainable from this hilltop, and it was disgusting to have to sit still and watch the Boer convoy trekking away in a north-easterly direction and about 4 miles off.
At daybreak, five o'clock the next morning, we continued our journey, passing on the veldt our wagons trekking along.
Apart from considerations of safety, it is not sound to see the troops trekking away into camp with the convoy sprawling along the road, and with the rear guard clustering behind the last wagon.
Major Church and the Volunteers had beentrekking with Williams' and Byng's columns respectively.
People whom the Turks had turned out of Gaza and the surrounding country were trekking back to the spots where they and their forefathers had lived for countless generations.
