Even on this upward trail, rocky as it was and overgrown with shrubbery, her form was plainly distinguishable from below.

But Shotaye scorned to conceal herself, she walked without haste or hurry; her errand was perfectly legitimate and everybody might see her undertake it.
Everybody might indeed witness her doings as far as these could be seen.
She simply took a walk on the mesa of the Bird, Ziro kauash.

She hoped also to gather some useful plants,--such as the shkoa, a spinach-like vegetable; asclepias; apotz, a fever-medicine of the genus _artemesia_, and many other medicinal herbs known to the Indian and used by him.

For it had sprinkled if not rained every day of late, and last night's rain was still visible in the drops that covered the leaves.

The ground was soft, and her step left plainly distinguishable tracks.