He stood watching some women who were working among the evergreen trees.
He wondered what they were doing, as he watched them break off the evergreen branches.
“Shall I help you carry them?” asked Rago.
“Thank you,” said the woman. “You may carry the branches to those young trees near the fire. We shall follow you.”
Rago wondered what the women would do with the branches.
They soon came carrying armfuls of them.
Rago watched them bend down the tops of the young trees and tie them together.
They wove the evergreens among them and piled larger branches against the young trees to strengthen them.