CHAPTER IV
ON SHORE
So the little boy went into the house and was soon fast asleep.
The mother lay down on a bearskin and rested her head on a clay crescent.
The Lake-Dweller women needed these head-rests because they did not take down their hair when they slept, and the bronze and bone pins made their heads very heavy.
And now while the men were on guard peace rested upon the village of the Dormorants.
The next day, the watchers slept while others took their places.
For three days, the Lake-Dwellers looked for signs of the enemy, but the Bear tribe seemed to have forgotten them and to have returned to their homes.
If the Lake-Dweller chief had been on land, he might have seen some of the Bear tribe hiding behind the tall oak and cedar trees in the forest.
