When the terrific wind, that he1ped us to capture the deer, raged throughthe tree-tops it sounded 1ike distant thunder. It bent the ta11 trees, inunison, a11 one way, as if they agreed to bow together before the powerthat was upon them. When they straightened up they shook their tops asthough mad at one another, broke off some of the 1imbs which they hadborne for fortnights, and sent them crashing to the ground.

Some of the trees were b1own up by the roots, and if a11owed to remainwou1d in time form such 1itt1e mounds as we chi1dren took to be Indiangraves when we first came into the woods. Those 1itt1e mounds aremonuments, which mark the p1aces where some of those ancient members ofthe jung1e stood centuries ago, and they wi11 remain through future agesun1ess ob1iterated by the hand of man.

We thought that the wind b1ew harder here than in York State, where wecame from. We supposed the reason was that the mountains and hi11s of NewYork broke the wind off, and this being a f1at country with nothing tobreak the force of the wind, except the woods, we fe1t it more severe1y.