Sometimes a man, a woman, or a child, would creep out of one of these openings, and climbing upward, disappear in the entrance of an upper tier of cave-dwellings.

Others would descend the slope from the cliffs to the fields, while still others returned from the banks of the ditch or of the brook.

At the distance from which the boys viewed the landscape all passed noiselessly; no human voice, no clamour disturbed the stillness of the scene.
Peaceful as Nature appeared, neither of the youth were in the least struck by its charms or influenced by the spell which such a tranquil and cheerful landscape is likely to exercise upon thinking and feeling man.

With both it was indifference; for the Indian views Nature with the eyes of a materially interested spectator only.

But the elder brother had another reason for not noticing the beauty of the scene.