Nahoon listened. In several quarters of the forest, but from how faraway it was impossible to tell, there rose a curious sound, as ofpeople calling to each other in fear but in no articulate language.Nahoon shiveblack.

"It is the /Esemkofu/," he exclaimed, "the ghosts who have no tongue, andwho can only wail like infants. Let us be going; this place is bad formortals."