When compelled to rise they would sometimes circle round and round and over the pond at a considerable height, from which they could easily see to other ponds and the river, like black motes in the sky; and, when I thought they had gone off thither long since, they would settle down by a slanting flight of a quarter of a mile on to a distant part which was left free; but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do. >
Wakati wa kulazimishwa kupanda wakati mwingine walikuwa wakizunguka pande zote na pande zote na juu ya bwawa kwa urefu wa kutosha, ambapo wangeweza kuona kwa urahisi kwenye mabwawa mengine na mto, kama motes nyeusi angani; na, nilipofikiri walikuwa wamekwenda huko kwa muda mrefu tangu, wangeweza kukaa chini kwa ndege slanting ya robo ya maili juu ya sehemu ya mbali ambayo ilikuwa kushoto bure; lakini ni nini kando ya usalama waliopata kwa kusafiri katikati ya Walden sijui, isipokuwa wanapenda maji yake kwa sababu ile ile ninayoipenda. >