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We
looked
at
it
with
startled
eyes
.
The
heat
of
it
drove
us
back
.
Another
tree
caught
,
and
another
,
and
then
half
a
dozen
.
We
were
frightened
.
The
monster
had
broken
loose
.
We
crouched
down
in
fear
,
while
the
fire
ate
around
the
circle
and
hemmed
us
in
.
Into
Lop
-
Ear
’
s
eyes
came
the
plaintive
look
that
always
accompanied
incomprehension
,
and
I
know
that
in
my
eyes
must
have
been
the
same
look
.
We
huddled
,
with
our
arms
around
each
other
,
until
the
heat
began
to
reach
us
and
the
odor
of
burning
hair
was
in
our
nostrils
.
Then
we
made
a
dash
of
it
,
and
fled
away
westward
through
the
forest
,
looking
back
and
laughing
as
we
ran
.
By
the
middle
of
the
day
we
came
to
a
neck
of
land
,
made
,
as
we
afterward
discovered
,
by
a
great
curve
of
the
river
that
almost
completed
a
circle
.
Right
across
the
neck
lay
bunched
several
low
and
partly
wooded
hills
.
Over
these
we
climbed
,
looking
backward
at
the
forest
which
had
become
a
sea
of
flame
that
swept
eastward
before
a
rising
wind
.
We
continued
to
the
west
,
following
the
river
bank
,
and
before
we
knew
it
we
were
in
the
midst
of
the
abiding
-
place
of
the
Fire
People
.
This
abiding
-
place
was
a
splendid
strategic
selection
.
It
was
a
peninsula
,
protected
on
three
sides
by
the
curving
river
.
On
only
one
side
was
it
accessible
by
land
.
This
was
the
narrow
neck
of
the
peninsula
,
and
here
the
several
low
hills
were
a
natural
obstacle
.
Practically
isolated
from
the
rest
of
the
world
,
the
Fire
People
must
have
here
lived
and
prospered
for
a
long
time
.
In
fact
,
I
think
it
was
their
prosperity
that
was
responsible
for
the
subsequent
migration
that
worked
such
calamity
upon
the
Folk
.
The
Fire
People
must
have
increased
in
numbers
until
they
pressed
uncomfortably
against
the
bounds
of
their
habitat
.
They
were
expanding
,
and
in
the
course
of
their
expanding
they
drove
the
Folk
before
them
,
and
settled
down
themselves
in
the
caves
and
occupied
the
territory
that
we
had
occupied
.
But
Lop
-
Ear
and
I
little
dreamed
of
all
this
when
we
found
ourselves
in
the
Fire
People
’
s
stronghold
.
We
had
but
one
idea
,
and
that
was
to
get
away
,
though
we
could
not
forbear
humoring
our
curiosity
by
peeping
out
upon
the
village
.
For
the
first
time
we
saw
the
women
and
children
of
the
Fire
People
.
The
latter
ran
for
the
most
part
naked
,
though
the
former
wore
skins
of
wild
animals
.
The
Fire
People
,
like
ourselves
,
lived
in
caves
.
The
open
space
in
front
of
the
caves
sloped
down
to
the
river
,
and
in
the
open
space
burned
many
small
fires
.
But
whether
or
not
the
Fire
People
cooked
their
food
,
I
do
not
know
.
Lop
-
Ear
and
I
did
not
see
them
cook
.
Yet
it
is
my
opinion
that
they
surely
must
have
performed
some
sort
of
rude
cookery
.
Like
us
,
they
carried
water
in
gourds
from
the
river
.
There
was
much
coming
and
going
,
and
loud
cries
made
by
the
women
and
children
.
The
latter
played
about
and
cut
up
antics
quite
in
the
same
way
as
did
the
children
of
the
Folk
,
and
they
more
nearly
resembled
the
children
of
the
Folk
than
did
the
grown
Fire
People
resemble
the
grown
Folk
.
Lop
-
Ear
and
I
did
not
linger
long
.
We
saw
some
of
the
part
-
grown
boys
shooting
with
bow
and
arrow
,
and
we
sneaked
back
into
the
thicker
forest
and
made
our
way
to
the
river
.
And
there
we
found
a
catamaran
,
a
real
catamaran
,
one
evidently
made
by
some
Fire
-
Man
.
The
two
logs
were
small
and
straight
,
and
were
lashed
together
by
means
of
tough
roots
and
crosspieces
of
wood
.
This
time
the
idea
occurred
simultaneously
to
us
.
We
were
trying
to
escape
out
of
the
Fire
People
’
s
territory
.
What
better
way
than
by
crossing
the
river
on
these
logs
?
We
climbed
on
board
and
shoved
off
.
A
sudden
something
gripped
the
catamaran
and
flung
it
downstream
violently
against
the
bank
.
The
abrupt
stoppage
almost
whipped
us
off
into
the
water
.
The
catamaran
was
tied
to
a
tree
by
a
rope
of
twisted
roots
.
This
we
untied
before
shoving
off
again
.
By
the
time
we
had
paddled
well
out
into
the
current
,
we
had
drifted
so
far
downstream
that
we
were
in
full
view
of
the
Fire
People
’
s
abiding
-
place
.
So
occupied
were
we
with
our
paddling
,
our
eyes
fixed
upon
the
other
bank
,
that
we
knew
nothing
until
aroused
by
a
yell
from
the
shore
.
We
looked
around
.
There
were
the
Fire
People
,
many
of
them
,
looking
at
us
and
pointing
at
us
,
and
more
were
crawling
out
of
the
caves
.
We
sat
up
to
watch
,
and
forgot
all
about
paddling
.
There
was
a
great
hullabaloo
on
the
shore
.
Some
of
the
Fire
-
Men
discharged
their
bows
at
us
,
and
a
few
of
the
arrows
fell
near
us
,
but
the
range
was
too
great
.
