They, too, sprang up and stood howling, with bristling hides and fiery eyes, and the smell of them came into my nostrils.

Yet when they saw it was a man that rushed upon them, they were seized with sudden fear and fled this way and that, leaping by great bounds from the place of rock, which is the knees of the stone Witch, so that presently I stood alone in front of the cave.

Now, having conquered the wolf ghosts and no blow struck, my heart swelled within me, and I walked to the mouth of the cave proudly, as a cock walks upon a roof, and looked in through the opening.

As it chanced, the sinking sun shone at this hour full into the cave, so that all its darkness was made red with light.
Then, once more, Umslopogaas, I grew afraid indeed, for I could see the end of the cave.
"Look now! There is a hole in the wall of the cave, where the firelight falls below the shadow of the roof, twice the height of a man from the floor.

It is a narrow hole and a high, is it not ?--as though one had cut it with iron, and a man might sit in it, his legs hanging towards the floor of the cave.