English Summary

Lukas family was worried because the child is gone. Gertie explained that the child is slow but he is gone even before being realised. They searched for Lukas until dark. The child disappeared like Malie’s aunt. Elias felt that least he could do is to find the footstep, believing it was bigfeet that killed him. Malie felt the bigfeets would not felt anything they step on when eating in the night. Gertie claimed elephants do not kill children. They would search in different directions and returned back after tenth call, would make a big fire so the child could walk towards it when awoke. Koos went to nearest forester to tell about the missing child. Martiens is angry the mister declared the child is dead. As the day went, more woodcutters came to help find the child. Martiens gave up to the fact that the child is dead. Elias just refused to accept the fact.