CHAPTER 12.
More Creatures One day from morning till night they had been passing through a forest.
As soon as the sun was down Curdie began to be aware that there were more in it than themselves.

First he saw only the swift rush of a figure across the trees at some distance.

Then he saw another and then another at shorter intervals.

Then he saw others both farther off and nearer.

At last, missing Lina and looking about after her, he saw an appearance as marvellous as herself steal up to her, and begin conversing with her after some beast fashion which evidently she understood.
Presently what seemed a quarrel arose between them, and stranger noises followed, mingled with growling.