and he saw : a pack of the big-headed dogs , more damaged than the others he had seen , pathetically come crawling after the train , drooling with hunger ; three board shacks , human habitations , propped up over the thick dust on stilts , promising that somewhere out in that stinking poisoned wilderness which was the blasted lands other people schemed and hunted for food ; a small leathery bird , featherless , with - this a real territories touch - a bearded monkeylike face , and clearly delineated fingers protruding from the tips of its wings ; and worst of all ( apart from what he thought he saw ) , two completely unrecognizable animals drinking from one of the black pools - animals with long teeth and human eyes and forequarters like those of pigs , hindquarters like those of big cats .