That is it! We make so little sound that it is no sound at all, and they cannot hear us.

Now, we are well beyond them, and the two canoes are meeting in the fog.

The men in them talk together.

You hear them very well yourself, Dagaeoga.

Their exact words do not come to our ears, but we know they are telling one another that no messenger from the beleaguered camp has yet passed.
Now, they part and go back on their beat.