The strange thing is that they should have lived so thickly on what must always have been most unfruitful soil. I am no antiquarian, but I could imagine that they were some unwarlike and harried race who were forced to accept that which none other would occupy.
Przypuszczam, że to był szczep tchórzliwy, stroniący od wojowniczych sąsiadów, a trzęsawisko było najpewniejszą przeciw nim warownią.