It may be Tandakora himself and it is unfortunate.

They will never leave us now, unless they are driven back." "Then we'd better turn back towards the north, as the thickest of the swarms are sure to be to the south of us." "It is so.

Again the longest of roads becomes the safest for us, but we will not make it wholly north, we will bear to the east also.

I once left a canoe, hidden in the edge of a lake there, and we may find it." "What will we do with it if we find it ?" "Tandakora will not be able to follow the trail of a canoe.

But now we must press forward with all speed, Dagaeoga.