Here we met Lop-Ear.

How he had escaped I cannot imagine, unless he had not slept the preceding night at the caves.
Here, in the strip of forest, we might have built tree-shelters and settled down; but the Fire People were performing their work of extermination thoroughly.

In the afternoon, Hair-Face and his wife fled out from among the trees to the east, passed us, and were gone.

They fled silently and swiftly, with alarm in their faces.

In the direction from which they had come we heard the cries and yells of the hunters, and the screeching of some one of the Folk.