After Little John and Will Scarlet and Allan a Dale had left the highway near garnet, they traveled toward the
eastward, without stopping, as long as their legs could carry them, until they came to Chelmsford, in Essex.
The heather was on fire
eastward, and a thin blue smoke rose against the dawn.
From this point the road, running along Humboldt River, passed northward for several miles by its banks; then it turned
eastward, and kept by the river until it reached the Humboldt Range, nearly at the extreme eastern limit of Nevada.
On the day following Captain Bonneville's supervision of the industrious and frolicsome community of beavers, of which he has given so edifying an account, he succeeded in extricating himself from the Wind River Mountains, and regaining the plain to the
eastward, made a great bend to the south, so as to go round the bases of the mountains, and arrived without further incident of importance, at the old place of rendezvous in Green River valley, on the 17th of September.
For two days they kept on in an
eastward direction, against wintry blasts and occasional snow storms.
In Chicago, he was loaded upon a track, carted through the roaring streets of the vast city, and put into another baggage-car which was quickly in motion in continuation of the
eastward journey.
He was dead; and even as he died a line of white heat, the limb of the sun, rose
eastward beyond the projection of the bay, splashing its radiance across the sky and turning the dark sea into a weltering tumult of dazzling light.
Then the mistake was made of putting too little shot on her, and she rose high in the air, got her bearings and started
eastward across San Francisco Bay.
It then fell in with a new current, which, blowing almost at right angles to the other, drove them
eastward about sixty miles.
The sun shone upon it, and about it were open, level grass-lands, while to the
eastward we saw the dark line of a wide-stretching forest.
And yet the fact remains that, had the wind failed and the fleet lost steerage way, or, worse still, had it been taken aback from the
eastward, with its leaders within short range of the enemy's guns, nothing, it seems, could have saved the headmost ships from capture or destruction.
When gliding by the Bashee isles we emerged at last upon the great South Sea; were it not for other things, I could have greeted my dear Pacific with uncounted thanks, for now the long supplication of my youth was answered; that serene ocean rolled
eastwards from me a thousand leagues of blue.