28/37 Make fire, kill sheep, and have feast." Reuben and some of the settlers rode over to the spot to which the tracker pointed. "Look there! There are at least twenty heads." "So there are," Reuben said. "There must have been a lot of natives." "Yes, there must have been a good many," the settler agreed, "but not so many, perhaps, as you would think. Nobody has ever found out, yet, how much these blacks can eat when they make up their mind to it; but two could certainly devour a sheep. They will eat till they can't sit upright." "They would hardly eat as much as that, with a long journey before them," Reuben said; "but allow only three to a sheep, there must be sixty of them. |