Excerpt from Incense of Sandalwood Then all the singing birds were silent and the little squirrels ran and hid themselves. After a long while the companies passed forth from that place yet striving; but I thought those who found goodness in the bark were weary and would not strive much longer. I also was weary; howbeit I had taken no part - being ignorant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.