South Cove was a peaceful backwater on Girdley Island.South Cove Village Known also as Girdley camp, this collection of twenty-odd crofts and huts was as quiet and peaceful as a Riverman village was likely to get.Its male inhabitants fished in the Brandywine and trapped and hunted along the shores adjacent to the island.Although they occasionally visited Rood or Bree to procure manufactured goods, regular visits by canoe-loads of Rivermen from other settlements provided most of their contact with the outside world.Truly violent crimes were rare on Girdley Island; mothers teached their children manners by telling them about the Eath and the Gulper: the first was an Elvish wight who turned runaway boys into ducklings and had them for supper; the latter was a gigantic fish that swallowed thie