"My fellow cave-men, fell in a rage:

'What hast thou done?' cried Singh, the Sage,

'For I hear far off a battle-song,

And the tree-men come, a hundred strong ...'

Long the battle and dread the fight;

We hurled rocks down from our mountain height"—

I copy this from memory alone ... Hildreth has all my cave-poems. I gave them to her, holding no transcripts of them—

The upshot—

"All of our tribe were slain ... Naa and I alone escaped—going far off—