When all was in readiness Quelele led the way up the tortuous watercourse and through the mighty gates of porphyry nearly blocking the farther reaches.
A narrow upward-springing ledge of rock led away from the dry watercourse to a rock pulpit some seventy-five or a hundred feet above.
Already a white streak of foam in the lightning flashes marked where the once bone-dry watercourse was changing character.
A newly arrived party, having heard that some native cow has been carried off within a week, will make a reconnaissance of the surrounding country upon their elephants, and will examine every watercourse for tracks.
To get any, daddy, I may have to go way back to the wagon, for I haven't come upon a single watercourse since leaving camp this morning.
As I was walking along the side of a steep hill, I saw four cheetahs cross a dry watercourse at the bottom and ascend half-way up the side of the opposite hill, when they lay down and began gambolling like kittens.
Our progress along the steep watercourse was necessarily slow, and by noon we had not advanced more than a mile.
We proposed ascending to the chalets of Maerjelin, but previous to quitting the watercourse we halted, and, directing our voices down hill, shouted a last shout.
The embankment of the watercourse fell at some places vertically for twenty or thirty feet.
Two of them I sent across the mountain by the usual route to the Maerjelin See, and the third I took with myself along the watercourse of the AEggischhorn.
Several years afterwards I discovered pieces of this boat, built of New Zealand pine, in the debris of a flood about twenty miles down the watercourse where it had been left.
I thought such a continued fall of country might lead to a considerable watercourse or freshwater basin; but this salt bog was dreadful, the more especially as it prevented me reaching the mountain which appeared so inviting beyond.
Following the watercourse we were encamped upon, it took us through a pass, among the rough hills lying north-easterly.
At ten miles from Louisa's Creek we camped at another and larger watercourse than the Chirnside, which I called the Shaw*.
After returning for a few miles on our outcoming tracks, Alec found a watercourse that ran south-westerly, and as it must eventually fall into the Ashburton, we followed it.
They can live without water, but, at times, build so near a watercourse as to have their structures swept away by floods.
We found a small watercourse trending easterly, and in it I discovered a pool of clear rain-water, all among stones.
I called the most western hill of this range Mount Forrest, and the most western watercourse Forrest's Creek.
Gregory subsequently discovered that Mitchell's Victoria turned south, and was one and the same watercourse called Cooper's Creek by Sturt.
But the truth is that it forms a watercourse dependent at present upon floods, admitting of navigation for hundreds of miles at certain seasons, and at others being as dry as the Arno at Florence or the Manzanares at Madrid.
I therefore altered the course to 200 degrees magnetic, and descended a rocky valley in which was a small watercourse which enlarged into a considerable creek with large rocky waterholes.
The country continued hilly for about ten miles, when we arrived at the summit of a granite and sandstone tableland, at the extreme sources of the watercourse we had been following up.
Taking our course direct for Mount Hale, the pasture rapidly improved; at ten miles the watercourse we had been following formed a junction with the main Murchison, coming in from the eastward.
A rather rough ride of four hours to the south-east brought us to a watercourse sixty yards wide, trending to the north-north-east, in which we found pools of water lined with reeds and flags.
Three miles to the south-west of this range the country rose into an elevated tableland higher than the Jasper Range; towards this we continued our route, following a small watercourse which gradually turned to the east.
Passing several dry beds of shallow lagoons, came to a small dry watercourse coming from the east; at 12.
A large party of natives were encamped upon the watercourse down which we descended to the plain.
The country again became scrubby, and, descending an open valley, came on a small watercourse at 1.
A few miles brought us to a small watercourse running gently from some springs in the plain, which, contrary to our expectations, ran into the ranges to the south-east instead of coming out of them.
This watercourse comes here from the north-north-east or even north of that, and bears away to the south-south-west as far as discernible.
Here the watercourse is about 100 yards broad, in many places bergues of sand separating it into different channels.
At eleven and a quarter miles further came to a watercoursefrom the westward and flowing considerably to north of east with plenty of water.
At ten miles struck and crossed a box creek where it empties itself into a flat; passing over splendid country, the latter part in the small watercourse rather stony and sandy.
I am quite surprised that they could not get south by Strzelecki's Creek, being under the impression that two-thirds of the water of Cooper's Creek was drained off by that watercourse southward.
This sandy watercourse flows to west and south, a mere narrow channel, but it was of much service to us; we would have fared badly for the poor animals had we not fallen in with it, insignificant as it appears.
But never has the gulf between democracy and personal rule been so quickly spanned as by the commanding genius of Bonaparte.
After many careful inquiries, it was decided that the party should first try its luck on Gold Bottom Creek, at some spot near to where the watercourse was joined by Hunker and Last Chance creeks.
He was nearly blinded by some fine sand getting into his eyes and began to flounder around as though in the midst of an ocean instead of a watercourse less than fifty feet wide and five feet deep.
The old water god not only consented to help his young relative, but promised to divide the water supply of the neighboring Wailele spring, and let it run into the watercourse that the boy would make, thus insuring its permanence.
Before the break of day the work was completed, and the water of the Waimea River was turned by the dam into the watercourse on the flat lands of Waimea.
The boy paid him a visit, and asked him to assist him to open a watercourse from the pond of Kanawai to a place he indicated in front of and below the caves inhabited by himself and his sister.
Captain Trevithick has an interest in the mine of Coralillo; the great watercourse is also his.
It was on this account that I wished to examine the watercourse for this purpose, without the knowledge of Mr. Abadia or anyone but Mr. Page and the interpreter, who always attends me.
A mile up from the water gate that turns the creek into supply pipes for the town, begins a row of long-leaved pines, threading the watercourse to the foot of Kearsarge.
The wadi Surar winds round the foot of the hill which Kustul crowns, and on the other side of the watercoursethere rises the series of hills on which the Turks intended to hold our hands off Jerusalem.
Zeit to the head of that narrow watercourse at the base of the south-western edge of the hill on which the village stands.
But just when it seemed to the lad that his body could not stand another fraction of an ounce of strain, he happened on a place where a watercourse from above had cut a sort of shallow cleft in the precipice.
Above the dry watercourse the cliff shot up more precipitously than the part he had already traversed below it; but Jack steeled himself to the thought of the dizzy climb.
Above him was the steep cliff, while to move even a short distance in either direction from the dry watercourse would mean a death plunge to the valley below.
They followed the shore line of Lake Cameron, heading for the rocky watercourse that connected that body of water with Firefly Lake.
As they entered the watercourse connecting the two lakes they noticed that the current was flowing swiftly.
It was their purpose to get to the lake by noon if possible, and then strike out along the rockywatercourse leading to Lake Cameron.
Taking the game to the rowboat, they resumed their journey, and by noon reached the watercourse connecting the two lakes.
The water drawn up from the watercourse by each stroke of the pump would fully compensate for what was used in its passage through the palace by the inhabitants.
Hundreds of miles stretches this dreary land, the Lachlan winding through it from east to west, the least significant stream in a dry or ordinary season that ever served as the watercourse for so broad a land.
The Loddon has a watercoursefor the whole distance, but at its best in summer it will be but a chain of water-holes.
They thundered down the incline and were dashing through the stony watercourse almost before Sylvia, clinging dazed to her seat, realized what was happening.
She pressed on with diminishing speed, taking a slanting upward course that presently brought her into the sun again and in view of the little cabin above the stony watercourse that had sheltered Guy for so long.
As he had guessed the dry watercourse had become a foaming torrent.
The first point they intended to reach was Eyre's Creek, but before arriving at it, they discovered a fine watercourse coming from the north, which took them a long distance in the direction they desired to follow.
This induced him to alter his plan, and he thought he should follow such an important watercourse and ascertain its outflow.
He decided to follow the northern limit of the desert to the westward, until he should find a southern-flowing watercourse which would afford him the opportunity to make a dash beyond its confines.
Far as he could see to the north and east, nothing was visible but the level unending spinifex; not a watercourse or a hill in sight.
Passing through a belt of country with numerous small shallow lakelets, they came to a watercourse whereon they found signs of a grave, and they picked up a battered pint-pot.
Descending the slope to the northward, they soon came to the head of a watercourse flowing northwards.
He traversed Lake Torrens, and, striking north, crossed the lower end of Cooper's Creek at a point where the main watercourseis lost in a maze of channels.
Twelve kilometres from our last camp we came to a watercourse flowing into a big stream at the bottom of the valley.
The river was so wonderfully tidy that, had it not been for its great breadth, one would have felt as if going through a watercourse in England.
