If we find them scattered, all we can do is to sweep 'em up, and then go about our business."
Perhaps the food won't be scattered as badly as the people."
Nevertheless, from the following considerations, I do not believe that the simple fact of many gigantic quadrupeds having lived on the plains round Bahia Blanca, is any sure guide that they formerly were clothed with a luxuriant vegetation: I have no doubt that the sterile country a little southward, near the Rio Negro, with its
scattered thorny trees, would support many and large quadrupeds.
Mental excitement was apt to send me with a rush back to my own naked land and the figures
scattered upon it.
The carriers dispatched from the Ti were to be seen hurrying in all directions through the deep groves; each individual preceded by a boy bearing a flaming torch of dried cocoanut boughs, which from time to time was replenished from the materials
scattered along the path.
And
scattered about it, some in their over- turned war-machines, some in the now rigid handling- machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians--DEAD!--slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unpre- pared; slain as the red weed was being slain; slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth.
There was heaps of old greasy cards
scattered around over the floor, and old whisky bottles, and a couple of masks made out of black cloth; and all over the walls was the ignorantest kind of words and pictures made with charcoal.
And fortunate it was that he did so; for in a little while he encountered one of the phenomena of the western wilds that would effectually have prevented his
scattered people from finding each other again.
At ten o'clock at night, after passing over ravines, forests, and
scattered villages, the aeronauts reached the side of the Trembling Mountain, along whose gentle slopes they went quietly gliding.
The cascades, somewhat rebellious nymphs though they were, poured forth their waters brighter and clearer than crystal: they
scattered over the bronze triton and nereids their waves of foam, which glistened like fire in the rays of the sun.
Two roads led out of the town on the eastern side; one branched off towards the Ambroses' villa, the other struck into the country, eventually reaching a village on the plain, but many footpaths, which had been stamped in the earth when it was wet, led off from it, across great dry fields, to
scattered farm-houses, and the villas of rich natives.
Wherever they tried to corner a worked-out creek, they found him standing in the way, owning blocks of claims or artfully
scattered claims that put all their plans to naught.