Perhaps it was because the place of his questing had ever been the forests, the mountains, the clean, unpeopled places.

If they rode alone, they felt none of that loneliness which is so integral a part of the still, unpeopled places.

It was that mystery of the unpeopled places that he most desired, their silence, the comradeship of spaces untrod by the feet of man.

The forest-walled shores of the river grew mightier in their stillness and their grandeur, and the vast silence of unpeopled places brooded over the world.