Lukas family was worried because … The child was missing. They could not understand how he disappeared. They knew of what awaited a child when there was no one with him. The elephant had been eating around thus frightening them that the elephant would not feel if it stepped on the child. The family searched and called out for Lukas until dark. Anna and the men were back at midnight. Martiens, took over giving orders for the people to search north south east and west And the women to make a big fire in the middle of the Island incase the child fell asleep somewhere and wakes up, he'll see the glow and come back. Koos, left for Deep Walls to tell the forester about the missing child. By midday, woodcutters helped search for the child and later on the constable joined them.. Wherever the news had spread through the Forest, the woodcutters laid down their Martiens thought the child was no longer alive.