The fancy of Columbus was easily excited, and notions of a change of climate, and even aberrations of the stars were easily imagined by him amid the strange phenomena of that untracked waste.
Within a few minutes the little body of sailors and the two French officers, together with Professor Porter and Clayton, set off upon their hopeless and ill-fated quest into the untracked jungle.
The footing was none the best, but the horses they rode had been running over untracked mesa-land since they were bandy-legged colts.
The mesa, no longer showing itself an and waste of heat and untracked wilderness, lay soft under a thin veil of many ethereal tints.
In canoes they passed through untracked forests and grassy savannahs following the course of the river.
Then they plunged into the untracked wilderness, the least known part of German East Africa, between northern Unyamwezi and the crater region at the head of Lake Manyara, where the British forces would probably impinge on the Happy Valley.
With the North Star over the water for our guidance, I headed the blunt nose of the boat due eastward into the untracked waters.
Did Liza and his hardy crew of keel boatmen find an untracked and uninhabited wilderness?
On the contrary, as he journeys along the wild woodland path he sings, jests and whistles, happy as the birds about him, content among the sweet mysteries of the untracked forests.
It came into a land wide, unbounded, apparentlyuntracked by man, and seemingly set beyond the limit of man's wanderings.
The meeting of this other vehicle, here in the middle of the untracked prairie, perhaps aided by the chance words of a tired negress, made the determining circumstances.
Long train loads of these cattle, wild and fierce, fresh from the chutes into which they were driven after their march across the untracked empire of the range, rolled eastward day after day.
And in truth Miss Matilda was living the Stone Age for the half hour it took Motauri to get them both down the untracked mountain side.
The road was obliterated, and it was my duty to keep a petroleum stable-lamp swinging to illuminate the untracked wilderness.
Afterwards, in order to reach Davos, the pass of the Scaletta rose before them--a wilderness of untracked snow-drifts.
The railroads were pushing out into a new and untracked empire.
He had, by persistent questioning, acquired considerable information, during that busy hour spent in Cheyenne, regarding the untrackedregions lying before him, as well as the character and disposition of the man he pursued.
What could be fairer, cherie,--even though we leave another to win to the untracked West.
What is it like, the heart of a maid, that turns from thought of love to that of these wild lands, to the mystery of the Whispering Hills that lie, the good God knows where, in that dim and untracked West!
Her untracked oceans, whispering of virgin wonders unsullied by the eye of man, beckoned me out upon their restless bosoms.
From experience of untracked woods and rough ridges, Blaise knew the trip was probably a harder one than Hugh had imagined, but the latter was not inexperienced in rough going.
This was by no means the first time Hugh had been through untracked woods and over rough ground, yet he found the trip to the ridge top longer and more difficult than he had expected.
When they left the trail and took to the untracked snow, speed slackened considerably.
The squeaking carts followed his lead, bumping, pitching, and wobbling over the untracked ground.
The Doc came to a sharp eastward turning of the road but kept straight ahead out over the untracked flats to southward.
Note a stanza like this: How dark and deep, how sullen, strong and lionlike the mighty Missouri rolled between his walls of untracked wood and cleft the unknown domain of the middle world before us!
Walking on the untracked snow in midwinter is an uncertain business, and the prairie people rarely make use of snowshoes.
