CHAPTER V.
"The soul of the wicked desireth evil; his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes."-- _Proverbs_.
FOR several days, they abstained from lighting a fire, lest the smoke should be seen; but this, the great height of the bank would have effectually prevented.

They suffered much cold at night from the copious dews, which, even on sultry summer's evenings, is productive of much chilling.

They could not account for the fact that the air, at night, was much warmer on the high hills than in the low valleys; they were even sensible of a rush of heat as they ascended to the higher ground.
These simple children had not been taught that it is the nature of the heated air to ascend, and its place to be supplied by the colder and denser particles.

They noticed the effects, but understood nothing of the causes that ruled them.
The following days they procured several partridges, but feared to cook them; however, they plucked them, split them open, and dried the flesh for a future day.

A fox or racoon attracted by the smell of the birds, came one night, and carried them off, for in the morning they were gone.
They saw several herd of deer crossing the plain, and one day Wolfe tracked a wounded doe to a covert under the poplars, near a hidden spring, where she had lain herself down to die in peace, far from the haunts of her fellows.