Noozak looked up, and saw the shadow of Upisk, the great eagle, as it flung itself between the sun and the earth.

Neewa saw the shadow, and cringed nearer to his mother.
And Noozak--so old that she had lost half her teeth, so old that her bones ached on damp and chilly nights, and her eyesight was growing dim--was still not so old that she did not look down with growing exultation upon what she saw.

Her mind was travelling beyond the mere valley in which they had wakened.

Off there beyond the walls of forest, beyond the farthest lake, beyond the river and the plain, were the illimitable spaces which gave her home.

To her came dully a sound uncaught by Neewa--the almost unintelligible rumble of the great waterfall.