expedition quotes

And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me.

- Gavin Douglas
  'On a Return from Egypt,1943^44' (published1946).

The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter; We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. We made an expedition; We met a host, and quelled it; We forced a strong position, And killed the men who held it.

-Thomas Love Peacock
  The Misfortunes of Elphin,'TheWar-Song of DinasVawr'.

The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief.

-John Hanning Speke
  Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile.