"Terra incognita" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... islands and set to work. Our regular day's march, although it was hard enough, carried us on an average only ten miles in a straight line, and perhaps fifteen or twenty altogether. Beyond the place where we slept last night, the country is completely terra incognita, for it was there that Captain Stokes turned back. We saw in the distance a great smoke, and found the skeleton of a horse, so we knew that Indians were in the neighbourhood. On the next morning (21st) tracks of a party of horse, and marks left by the trailing of the chuzos, or long spears, ...
— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin
... sometimes excites. If one lady can make a voyage round the world, why should not another ride across Patagonia? To our grandmothers a French or Italian tour was an event of novelty and importance; but nous avons change tout cela. It is quite understood that no "terra incognita" exists into which our female ...
— Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century • W. H. Davenport Adams
... Hubbard's project called for his plunge into a region where no footsteps would be found to guide him. Not only this, but the George River country, which it was his ultimate purpose to reach, was, and still remains, terra incognita; for although McLean made several trips up and down this river, he neither mapped it nor left any definite descriptions ...
— The Lure of the Labrador Wild • Dillon Wallace
... has not yet been disproved; and Herbert Spencer discovered, for his own satisfaction, fixed limits beyond which the mind can not travel. His expression, the Unknowable, reminds one of those old maps wherein vast sections were labeled, Terra Incognita. ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 • Elbert Hubbard |
