I could do it by day, when I could see what was on the ground, but in the dark the thing was beyond me.

It is an instinct like a wild thing's, and possible only to those who have gone all their days light-shod in the forest.
Suddenly the slope and the trees ceased, and a new glare burst on our eyes.

This second shelf was smaller than the first, and as I blinked at the light I saw that it held about a score of men.

Torches made of pine boughs dipped in tar blazed at the four corners of the assembly, and in the middle on a boulder a man was sitting.

He was speaking loudly, and with passion, but I could not make him out.