Many men are cutting down trees." "They're building a fort, and they're in a hurry about it or they would not be felling trees so early in the morning." "Your reasoning about the hurry is good, Dagaeoga.

The white man will not go into the forest with his ax at daybreak, unless the need of haste is great, but it is not a fort they build.

Mingled with the fall of the axes I hear another note.

It is a humming and a buzzing.

It is heard in these forests much less often than the thud of the ax.