ᏧᏓᎴᏅᎲ ᎤᎵᎪᎲᏍᏗ, ᏍᏈᏍᏔ ᎠᏓᏣᏁᎯ ᏬᏯ ᎠᏂᎷᎪ, ᎠᏂᎦᏗᏛ ᎾᏍᎩᏯ ᎤᎵᏏᎩ ᎨᏴ ᏧᎦᏃᏮ ᎢᏣ ᎦᎸᎶᎢ, ᎤᏍᎪᏍᏓ ᎤᎵᏑᏫᏛ ᎠᏙᎯ ᏩᏂᎷᎪ, ᎦᏲᏟ ᏧᏙᏓᏆᏓ, ᎾᏍᎩᏯ ᎬᏂᎨ ᎤᏍᎪᎸ ᎤᎧᎭᏛ ᏥᏍᏆ ᎭᏫᏯ.
At this precise moment of the fall, since the beginning of known time, passenger pigeons had arrived in great clouds, their masses like a dark river flowing southward down the sky, settling into the bright-colored woods for a few days like a dense grey fog of bird meat.