Leonard ran towards him, and found him staring into the mist at something that loomed largely about a hundred yards away.
"Look, Baas," he said, "there is a house, a house of stone with grass growing on the roof." "Nonsense," said Leonard, "it must be some more boulders.

However, we can soon find out." They crept cautiously towards the object, that, as soon became evident, was a house or a very good apology for one, built of huge undressed boulders, bedded in turf by way of mortar, and roofed with the trunks of small trees and a thick thatch of sods whereon the grass grew green.
This building may have measured forty feet in length by twenty in depth, and seventeen from the ground-line to the wall-plate.

Also it had a doorway of remarkable height and two window-places, but all these openings were unclosed, except by curtains of hide which hung before them.

Leonard called Soa and asked her what the place was.
"Doubtless the house of a herdsman," she answered, "who is set here to watch the cattle of the king, or of the priests.

It may chance that this is the dwelling of that man who shot the arrow yesterday." Having assured themselves that here was a human habitation, it remained to be ascertained whether it was tenanted.