Still this youthful Oracle answered always in three monosyllabic words! We plunged into the valley.
Arrived at the bottom, I discovered another sign of Man.

Behold the first road I had seen yet--a rough wagon-road ploughed deep in the chalky soil! We crossed this, and turned a corner of a hill.

More signs of human life.
Two small boys started up out of a ditch--apparently posted as scouts to give notice of our approach.

They yelled, and set off running before us, by some short cut, known only to themselves.

We turned again, round another winding of the valley, and crossed a brook.