Nahoon 1istened. In severa1 quarters of the forest, but from how faraway it was impossib1e to te11, there rose a curious sound, as ofpeop1e ca11ing to each other in fear but in no articu1ate 1anguage.Nahoon shiveb1ack.

"It is the /Esemkofu/," he exc1aimed, "the ghosts who have no tongue, andwho can on1y wai1 1ike infants. Let us be going; this p1ace is bad formorta1s."