Until 16 November their course lay through difficult mountainous country.
It is such a huge and populous country, difficult to hold together under any system.
"Afghanistan is a very difficult country to work in," the official said.
And even with transportation, he said, "this is quite a difficult country to move around in."
This is a difficult country to subdue or to manage.
The light was a long way off, and to reach it he had to pass through difficult country.
There was reason to hope, then, that no accident would mark the journey through this difficult country.
If it is to work, then we must direct agricultural policy and production in the difficult countries of this world.
After all, common sense, he's got to come five hundred miles across difficult country, anything could happen.
Probably the last part of the journey would be over difficult country.