Bayou in Big Woods (Location Key)

In "The Bear" and Go Down, Moses stands a "big gum tree" beside this "little bayou whose black still water crept without motion out of a cane-brake, across a small clearing and into the cane again" (285, 191). The spot is some distance beyond the log where The Bear's footprint was first seen, and it serves as a demarcation point between two parts of the wilderness: the hunting grounds that the boy|Ike McCaslin already knows and the "new and alien country" (289, 196) that lies beyond, where he will see the bear.