We started early this morning, and proceeded up a spur of the range, in a north-westerly direction, but could not get so far as they had cleared.
Jackey was now head and leading man in every sense of the word, and away we went in a westerly direction, for about, say, five or six miles; Jackey telling us to look out behind and all about for the blacks.
We proceeded about five miles in a westerly direction, passing over two small creeks running to the south-east.
In this district we encounter many locally-derived erratics which have come from Mont du Chat to the west of the Lac du Bourget--that is to say, they have travelled in a north-westerly direction.
The north wind from the decline of the summer, blows in a westerly direction, and from the decline of the winter, in a north-westerly direction.
For ourselves, in a westerly direction we have travelled from Armenia to that part of Tyrrhenia[730] which is over against Sardinia; and southward, from the Euxine to the frontiers of Ethiopia.
On the 20th the ice had somewhat given way, and they recommenced their voyage, in a north-westerly direction.
After having, with considerable difficulty, navigated the northern side of the lake, they entered the mouth of a river, which lay in a westerly direction.
Steering their course in a south-westerly direction, for the head of the Red river, one of the party found a camp which had been occupied by at least three thousand Indians: it had a large cross in the middle.
In the morning, they observed a branch of the river running off in a westerly direction, the course of the main body being southwest.
At five in the morning, they let go the rope from the tree, and took their course in a westerly direction up a creek.
Proceeding about ten miles in a westerly direction, they suddenly turned up a branch joining the river from the northward, passing on the left the village of Bawie, at which Captain Clapperton landed.
The most conclusive proof[7] seems to be that the Spaniards followed the coast of Paria for a distance of about three thousand miles always in a westerly direction, but without discovering any end to it.
From my camp I ascended at once, very steeply, to the crest of the ridge on the left, which I then followed in a succession of undulations in a westerly direction.
Thiassene runs a stream five leagues long, in a north-westerly direction, and which is navigable for boats.
The river Menam-Ouan runs in a north-westerly direction to within a day's journey of the Menam-Sake.
Watson, Kennedy and I assisted the others down to the sea-ice by a long sloping snow-drift and saw them off to a good start in a south-westerly direction.
We did not get the coal ashore a moment too soon, as this morning the ice marked by our sledge tracks went to sea in a north-westerly direction, and this afternoon it is drifting back as if under the influence of a tide or current.
This was disposed so as to point in a north-westerly direction and it was late in the day before the ship doubled its northern end.
WE now proceeded in a North-westerly direction, and, once clear of the sacred Yutzang province, our guard behaved with rather less cruelty.
For a week now the little pack travelled on in a north-westerly direction, and every day old Tufter growled a little more bitterly and with a little better cause.
But for all the shortness of food, which was thinning the flesh over Finn's haunches now, it was another cause which led him to swerve from the north-westerly course in a south-westerly direction.
He avoided this danger by a hasty retirement from Mkapira in a westerly direction.
With these forces I intended to assume the offensive in a westerly direction.
Accordingly I would not commit our reserves to the confusion and uncertainty of a night battle in the bush, and determined to slip away from the battlefield in a north-westerly direction.
The Vale of Clwyd from the base of Mount York, extends six miles in a westerly direction, and has its termination at Cox's River.
The river wound immediately under the hill, taking a westerly direction as far as I went, which was about three miles; its windings were very sudden, and its width and depth much the same as before.
The gale broke about an hour before dawn; and when the sun rose he showed us a sky full of clouds that looked like tattered bunting of every imaginable colour one could think of, all scurrying across the sky in a westerly direction.
Slipping down from the tree, the two fugitives struck into the forest in a south-westerly direction, and were relieved to hear the drum-taps becoming ever fainter and fainter as they proceeded.
It was a larger sheet of water than he had expected to see, extending as far as the eye could reach in a north-westerly direction, bordered to the very edge with dense forest and extensive banks of reeds.
We steered at first in a south-westerly direction, with light breezes and fine weather.
The great oceanic stream, which, on leaving the western coast of Africa takes a westerly direction, is divided by the projecting American Continent into two branches, of which the stronger turns N.
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