The Meebaw are quick hunters and gross eaters, and travel slow.

We will find them by the Tewawha." "All in good time," I said.

"Retribution must wait till we have finished our task.

Can you find the Meebaw men again ?" "Yea," said Shalah, "though they took wings and flew over the seas I should find them." Then we hastened away from that glade, none speaking to the other.

We camped an hour's ride up the river, in a place secure against surprises in a crook of the stream with a great rock at our back.