Nowhere was there a sign of life.
Slowly the hunters approached.

It was evident that the cabin was very old.

The logs of which it was built were beginning to decay.

A mass of saplings had taken root upon its roof, and everything about it gave evidence that it had been erected many years before.

The door, made of split timber and opening toward the lake, was closed; the one window, also opening upon the lake, was tightly barred with lengths of sapling.
Mukoki tried the door, but it resisted his efforts.