It was a region a hundred miles square which the handiwork of Nature had made into a veritable kingdom of the wild.

They came upon great beaver colonies in the dark and silent places; they watched the otter at play; they came upon moose and caribou so frequently that they no longer feared or evaded them, but walked out openly into the meadows or down to the edge of the swamps where they were feeding.

It was here that Miki learned the great lesson that claw and fang were made to prey upon cloven hoof and horn, for the wolves were thick, and a dozen times they came upon their kills, and even more frequently heard the wild tongue of the hunting-packs.

Since his experience with Maheegun he no longer had the desire to join them.
And now Neewa no longer insisted on remaining near meat when they found it.

It was the beginning of the KWASKA-HAO in Neewa--the instinctive sensing of the Big Change.
Until early in October Miki could see but little of this change in his comrade.