front of me which made me sick at heart. The spot was spread with
the bones of men. There was a round place dug in the earth, where
a fire had been made, and here some men had come to feast. Now
that I had seen this sight, I knew not how to act; I kept close
to my home, and would scarce stir from it, save to milk my flock
of goats.

To feel safe was now more to me than to be well fed; and I did
not care to drive a nail, or chop a stick of wood, lest the sound
of it should be heard, much less would I fire a gun. As to my
bread and meat, I had to bake it at night when the smoke could
not be seen. But I soon found the way to burn wood with turf at
the top of it, which made it like chark, or dry coal; and this I
could use by day, as it had no smoke.

I found in the wood where I went to get the sticks for my fire, a
cave so large that I could stand in it; but I made more haste to
get out, than in; for two large eyes, as bright as stars, shone
out from it with a fierce glare. I took a torch, and went to see
what they could be, and found that there was no cause for fear;
for the eyes were those of an old gray goat, which had gone there
to die of old age. I gave him a push, to try to get him out of
the cave, but he could not rise from the ground where he lay; so
I left him there to die, as I could not save his life.

I found the width of the cave was twelve feet; but part of it,
near the end, was so low that I had to creep on my hands and feet
to go in. What the length of it was I could not tell, for my
light went out, and I had to give up my search. The next day, I
went to the cave with large lights made of goat's fat; and when I