This seemed a piece of glorious luck, and all rushed in like wolves lifter a wounded animal.

It was not very long before each had a chunk of meat in his hand, and many a one did not stop from eating because it was not cooked.

Such declared they never ate anything so delicious in all their lives before, and wondered why horses were not used as food instead of hogs and cattle.

As they satisfied their ravenous appetites they ate more like beasts than like men, so nearly were they starved, and so nearly had their starving condition made them fall from their lofty estate.
As they passed on down this canon they found it very brushy and on the dry leaves under the wide-spreading trees they saw signs of bear and perhaps other animals.

There were some swampy places where it was grassy, and into these the cattle rushed with great eagerness for the food they had so long suffered for.