We must watch for a breach in the living wall that hemmed us in; the wall that had only admitted us in order to shut us up.

Keeping at the centre of the lake, we were occasionally visited by small tame cows and calves; the women and children of this routed host.

Now, inclusive of the occasional wide intervals between the revolving outer circles, and inclusive of the spaces between the various pods in ANYONE of those circles, the entire area at this juncture, embraced by the whole multitude, must have contained at least two or three square miles. At any rate — though indeed such a test at such a time might be deceptive — spoutings might be discovered from our low boat that seemed playing up almost from the rim of the horizon.