They could not legitimately grouse this night with all the good things around so they turned their morbid thoughts to treks and predicted a move on the morrow, when every one would be laden with luxuries.
However, there can be no doubt that they proved conclusively that the spirit of the Battalion was right, and that all the inconveniences of treks were taken, by all, as part of the game.
There is, however, a great difference to be noted between the early treks of the emigrants and the treks 'from British rule.
Game was plentiful enough, and Dinny always had an ample supply for his iron pot, but more than once the difficulties with regard to water were very serious, and very long treks had to be made before a spring or river could be reached.
On the way to Lydenburg, not many treks from Paradise Camp, we were outspanned for the day.
Water, never too plentiful in certain parts, was sadly diminished by the drought, and it sometimes took us three or even four treks to get from water to water.
He used to sleep contentedly in a rumpled tarpaulin all through the night treks and come up fresh as a daisy and full of accumulated chat at the morning outspan, just when we--unless work or sport called for us--were wanting to get some sleep.
After many hard treks through the broken foothills, with their rocky sideling slopes and boulder-strewn torrent beds, at last the Berg itself was reached.
If the button comes down on one side he treks east; if on the other, he treks west.
When General Botha treks he treks at express speed.
The advance to these towns was achieved by a series of fast treks in which frightful conditions of thirst and fatigue were encountered.
Having filled all our bottles, and my Kaffirs having had a good drink of milk, we inspanned, and after two treksarrived at Lee's farm for the night, passing on the way many quaint granite hills covered with tropical vegetation.
Two treks a day, morning and evening, nine miles each, if possible, but in this country you must be guided by water.
Could we dare to think, for the first time, of rest from cold and hunger, treks and columns?
Night treksseemed now to be the rule, and this night we must tackle the second half (Yankova portion) of the defile.
During night treks the staff slept in the motor ambulances; the sergeant slept in one of the wagons, and I did not miss him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "treks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
