They ran through scrubby brush and tall grasses, racing as if devils were riding fiery horses in their wake.
The tracks were sunk between two banks which supported a thin growth of scrubby brush.
There were acacia trees and scrubby brush, which the nomads used thriftily, to start fires, but never for the fire itself.
Today, the Gallipoli battlefields are peaceful places covered in scrubby brush, pine forests and fields.
The four scouts turned their horses' heads and went back the way they'd come in, following the pounded-dirt track between hacked-off patches of scrubby brush.
They particularly favor open, seasonally damp flat areas with low grasses and open scrubby brushes.
I was somewhere in Arizona, trotting through scrubby brush behind a deserted warehouse.
Then I noticed we were in scrubby brush and that the wind no longer tore so relentlessly at us.
The pile of scrubby brush had just about disappeared.
But finally they reached a broad hillside closely covered with scrubby brush, through which the wagon could not pass.