I was listening to footsteps on the other side of the gate, echoing between the walls of the warehouses as if in an uninhabited town of very high buildings dark from basement to roof.
As soon as one leaves the rivers and starts across country one is in the uninhabited wilderness.
Our winter itinerary called us to leave the Allakaket immediately after New Year's Day, and our route lay overland through a totally uninhabited country for nearly one hundred and fifty miles, to Tanana on the Yukon.
It passed through an almost entirely uninhabited country in which perhaps scarcely a dozen messages would originate in a year.
No practicable route has been discovered along the uninhabited shores of Bering Sea, and all the mail for Nome comes from Valdez to Fairbanks and then down the Yukon and round Norton Sound by dog team.
The next morning we entered the uninhabited wilderness with three feet of new snow on the trail and no passage over it since it had fallen.
We met with several large uninhabited houses, which, we were told, belonged to the king.
Accordingly, soon after emerging from the strait, or completing the circuit of Tierra del Fuego, they began to hold a northerly course, to the uninhabited island of Juan Fernandez, their usual spot of rendezvous and refreshment.
Uninhabited as Hoolaiva is, an artificial mount, like that at the adjoining island, has been raised upon it, as high as some of the surrounding trees.
If, therefore, this number be applied to the whole extent of the coast round the island, deducting a quarter for the uninhabited parts, it will be found to contain one hundred and fifty thousand.
This circumstance, together with the uninhabited state of the country they were going to enter, made it necessary to procure a supply of provisions; and for that purpose they dispatched one of their guides back to the village.
It is difficult to convey an idea of the horror and desolation of so vast a tract of waterless and uninhabited country.
Had not Bob passed through innumerable hordes of men, he would have thought himself in an uninhabited region.
Presently the réveillé sounded, and then, what had seemed an uninhabited tract of country, was peopled by a great armed host.
I was fully aware that unless Almighty God came to my assistance, I must perish in thoseuninhabited woods.
Doubtless we all possess the feeling in some degree--the sense of loneliness and desolation and dismay at the thought of an uninhabited world, and of long periods when man was not.
But who could keep one's clothing fresh and tidy when cast away on an uninhabited island?
It would have seemed very tame indeed to him, on this uninhabited island, if his ingenuity had not to be taxed.
We must admit Neale O'Neil is a very good person to have along if one is to be cast away on an uninhabited island," said the critical sister, smiling.
We were bound once more for the interior, and expected to get well up towards the lakes of Arnarvatnsheithi, to visit the Caves at Surtshellir, and to see the western side of Lang Joekull, where we should again enter the uninhabited desert.
We had traversed the uninhabited country and were then entering upon the final stage of the journey across the island, where we expected to see some of the better class of farms and farmers.
It was a sort of triumphal entry, for the news had been carried forward by one of the guides, who was some little distance ahead with some of the pack-ponies, that we had just crossed the country by way of the uninhabited interior.
Besides, in the settlements there were many to find it and utilise it, while in the uninhabited regions there were only the Eskimo, of whom perhaps there were as yet few south of 68° N.
To the north of the northernmost inhabited fjords of the Western Settlement lay the uninhabited regions.
Ingimund the priest was found uncorrupted in the uninhabited region, but the other six are not mentioned.
The uninhabited regions here referred to are most probably East Greenland at about 69° N.
He was in the same ship with Thorvald and Thorvard, because he had wide knowledge of the uninhabited regions.
Relates how the Almiranta disappeared and joined company again, and how they sighted the seconduninhabited island.
Recounts the navigation that was made, and the signs that were noted, until the firstuninhabited island came in sight.
So there are uninhabited lands, I grant, but none uninhabitable.
It must be said," continued Altamont, "that we are going through an uninhabited and uninhabitable country.
Here we were, more than two thousand miles from home,--separated from it by a trackless, uninhabited waste of country.
Yes, I know, but suppose you get sick in thatuninhabited country; who will take care of you?
For weary days they followed through an almost uninhabited country, only to learn at last that they were upon the wrong trail.
On the wide uninhabited plains of Patagonia another closely allied species, O.
The distance to Buenos Ayres is about four hundred miles, and nearly the whole way through anuninhabited country.
There was very little water, and that little saline: the whole country, from the coast to the Cordillera, is an uninhabited desert.
At night we endeavoured in vain to find an uninhabited cove; and at last were obliged to bivouac not far from a party of natives.
From there onward for forty miles is an uninhabited wilderness so rough that you could not make seven miles a day in it to save your life, even if you knew the course; and there is no trail at all.
The mountain region itself remained almost uninhabited by whites, because the pioneers who crossed it were seeking better hunting grounds and farmsteads than the mountains afforded.
Then Onund consulted with his shipmates what was to be done, whether coast along the north protuberance of Iceland in search of uninhabited land, or go into the great bay and see whether any chance opened for them there.
It is true that it was a long and arduous day's ride from Biarg to the Eagle Lake, but the whole of the course along each of the ways lay through uninhabited land.
This is the largest point on the coast, and is uninhabited headland, stretching out into the Pacific, and has the reputation of being very windy.
In these ships, the Tartars sailed to a principal city of Zipangu, into which they were admitted without any suspicion, finding hardly any within its walls except women, the men being all absent on the expedition into the uninhabited island.
