[The Masters of the Peaks by Joseph A. Altsheler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Masters of the Peaks CHAPTER VI 16/30
Both fell asleep almost at once, and both awoke about the same time far after dawn. Robert moved his stiff fingers in his blanket and sat up, feeling cold and dismal.
Tayoga was sitting up also, and the two looked at each other. "In very truth those bear caves never seemed more inviting to me," said young Lennox, solemnly, "and yet I only see them from afar." "Dagaeoga has fallen in love with bear caves," said the Onondaga, in a whimsical tone.
"The time is not so far back when he never talked about them at all, and now words in their praise fall from his lips in a stream." "It's because I've experienced enlightenment, Tayoga.
It is only in the last two or three days that I've learned the vast superiority of a cave to any other form of human habitation.
Our remote ancestors lived in them two or three hundred thousand years, and we've been living in houses of wood or brick or stone only six or seven thousand years, I suppose, and so the cave, if you judge by the length of time, is our true home.
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