The opening has been made; it must now be cleared out. The work continues with feverish haste; all take part in it.
An elevated residence.
p. [149].
One after the other trees are stripped and maimed and, with miracles of strength and ingenuity, are pushed away as far as possible in order to make with them a solid and reliable enclosure all round.
Before night comes, in the space thus prepared, rise groups of temporary huts, and large bon-fires burn.
Following the method here described, the Sakais in a few hours succeed in clearing the forest for several miles round.
The next day they begin afresh and go on until the clearing is big enough to contain the number of huts necessary, separated, as is the use, two or three hundred yards each one from the other.
These are immense breaches which are opened in the forest but the latter also is immense and does not suffer from this raid upon its land, the less so because with its amazing power of fecundity it will soon have covered anew with vegetable life the abandoned village of the wandering tribe.