Between the star and the earth wheeled huge fox-headed bats, and night-jars hawking for the feather-winged moths. The buffaloes had left their water-holes, and the cattle were lying down for the night.
A csillag és a föld között óriási rókafejű denevérek röpdöstek, az éjjeli fecske vadá­szatra indult, a bölények kimásztak az iszapból, nyugovóra tértek.