Finding the river now trended not only northerly, but even east of north, we had to go in that direction, passing over some very high sandhills, where we met the Finke at almost right angles.
The range trended a little south of east, and we decided to follow along its southern face, which was open, grassy, and beautifully green; it was by far the most agreeable and pleasant country we had met.
I saw from the hill overhanging the water that the creek trended south-east.
I called the creek after Mr. Carmichael; and hoping it would contain good water lower down, decided to follow it, as it trended to the west.
One cone in the new range bore north 52 degrees west, and for some distance the creek trended that way.
This channel trended north-east, but we had not sailed above four miles before it narrowed so much that we saw it would be useless to us, and we therefore bore up and returned to the newly-discovered basin.
The sixteenth, we trended the coast southerly, which was all champaign and full of grass, but the island somewhat woody.
This coast is very full of people, for that as we trended the same savages still run along the shore, as men much admiring at us.
Near the crest of the sierra it turned sharply to the right, and trended in to the brow of the canon.
Here and there our path trended away from the river, crossing its numerous loops.
The shore trended in again after the point, and the indentation was full of weeds, whose broad brownish leaves floated on the surface.
And this round here," where the land trended to the left, and there was a deep inlet.
But when they had thrust the raft as far as this, not without great difficulty, for it dragged heavily on the weeds and sometimes on the ground, the marks changed and trended southwards.
When we were within the Cape we found an ebb-tide setting out of a bight, which trended deeply in to the southward and appeared to be studded with rocky islands.
The gulf, which had now assumed the character of a river, trended to the South-West, and at the distance of three or four miles disappeared among some high land in that direction.
About two miles farther on the banks of the river again contracted and trended to the south-east on so direct a course that, from the distant land being hidden by the horizon, the river bore the appearance of being a strait.
And so they went on another dreary six miles, till the land trended downwards, showing dark glens and masses of woodland far below.
The chase trended in my direction; as the pursued and the pursuer approached I had an excellent view of it.
I trended slightly to my right and gave Prince a looser rein.
We trended southward, for I wanted to get away from the Kanya; I began to hate it--almost as I hated Typhon.
This remarkable piece of land is called in the chart Table Hill; an inlet trended in towards the foot of it.
Twenty miles of the coastline from Champion Bay trended North 29 degrees West.
From Point Parker the coast trended south ten miles, which was the furthest the boats reached; beyond, it appeared to take a more easterly direction.
From Morning Inlet the coast was slightly waving and trended East 20 degrees North.
A little further on, the moon peering through the matted foliage showed one branch of the river turning off to the southward, whilst another, in the mouth of which we found ourselves, trended west.
Having consulted our security as much as possible in this particular, I took, before dark, the necessary bearings and angles for the survey, and was delighted to observe that the valley of the river again trended away to the southward.
On leaving the former he found that the shore trended North 47 degrees East, with a large inlet at the end of ten miles.
They then continued up the coast till it trended away to the west, forming, Furneaux thought, a deep bay.
On 31st October they rounded East Cape, and following the coast, which trended more to the west, they saw a great number of villages and patches of cultivation, some of the last looking as if freshly ploughed.
Here the land trended away to the west; the wind was westerly and light, and consequently their progress was very slow.
They believed that the coast trended northward and southward, and that one of these points was the proper one to head for.
After floundering about for a while they found shoal water again, reaching up only to their knees; but, wherever they attempted to follow the course of the waves, they perceived that the shoal trended gradually downward.
A line of breakers trended parallel to the water's edge, scarce a cable's length from the shore, and not two hundred yards from the spot where they had come to a pause.
At a point some eight miles farther on the channel again forked, one branch heading away to the north-east while the other trended off in a south-easterly direction.
Here the channel trended a point or two farther to the eastward; and some four miles farther on it forked, one branch continuing to the south-eastward while the other trended away toward the north-east.
We could just make out that the land along which we were steering, and which trended to the N.
From Cape Joseph Henry the land, he saw, trended away to the westward, but there was no indication of anything but the impenetrable polar pack to the north.
The land also appeared to lose the bold rugged character that had been such a prominent feature between Lincoln Bay and Cape Union, and now assumed an undulating form as it trended away to the N.
After rounding Cape Union the coast trended away to the westward of north, and the wind, which had hitherto been blowing so fresh, suddenly subsided.
Between these stupendous floes we would occasionally meet with some young ice amongst the hummocks which, when it trended in the right direction, would afford us easy travelling; but these leads were never of any extent.
Then I asked him how we should get from thence to the coast where the European ships came, seeing, if the land trended away west for 1500 miles, we must have all that shore to traverse before we could double the west point of it.
To the westward, on the other side of Mirror Bay, trended the white sand beach, backed by groves of beautiful trees which were in full verdure.
As I came near the bottom, I stopped the boat and advanced in the direction that the line from the buoy trended in.
Beyond the gulch it trended to the right and deeper into the woods, terminating at a noted salt lick, always a favorite resort of quadrupeds whether wild or domestic.
The side of it which trended to the north-west was very abrupt and stony, and it was with some difficulty we descended into it; but that done, we left Morgan and Flood with the cart, and ascended the nearer peak.
Shortly after starting we struck a little creek, which trended to the south, so that we were obliged to leave it, but we could trace the line of trees on its banks to a considerable distance.
From this point the creek trended more to the north, spreading over numerous flats in times of flood, dividing its channels into many smaller ones, but always uniting into one at the extremity of the flats.
On the following morning, therefore, we again entered the pass, but as it trended too much to the eastward, I crossed a small range and descended at once upon the plains leading to the camp.
We again struck the creek, on which we had rested, and which had turned to our right at 2 1/2 miles on an east by south course, and followed along its banks, until it again trended too much to the south.
A line of gum-trees marked the course of a small creek, which passing behind a little hill at the entrance of the valley, reappeared on the other side, and then trended to the N.
The hills we had ascended the day before trended to the north, and there was a small detached range running perpendicular to them on our right.
The land on our right still trended to the east for two miles, and then turned to the south.
The coast trended in exactly the same direction as that we had passed during the latter part of the preceding day's journey; the walking was in general good, and our dogs were every day recovering their strength.
We had some trouble in getting over this, but found it more smooth along the shore, which trendeddue north.
Always, in the days that followed, they pointed north; and always the trail, turning and twisting through a jumble of upstanding peaks, trended north.
They followed the stream for a dozen miles, abandoning it when it trended to the west and heading directly eastward up a narrow tributary.
The horns at first when starting from the head trended directly backwards, and then curved forwards, the tips being very pointed.
To the southward the land trended seaward, a lofty headland being visible.
When we were all embarked to proceed further on, a violent north-east wind overtook us, and drove us to the extremity of Santiago, whence we saw a large island to the south-east that trended westward.
Following along the coast, as it trended to the south-east, we entered a bay which resembles in form a pen for shoeing cattle (corral de herrar ganado).
Moreover, on the east[270] side of the extremity, the coast trended to the west, where I saw a great number of fine towns.
At day light the point above mention'd bore North, distant 3 Leagues, and we found that the land trended away from it South-West by West, as far as we could see.
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