GR translation: the starts in the very early mornings

[Mike Jing]

V556.3-13, P565.26-36   So finally he sailed back to Old England, not in
disgrace so much as despondency, and that’s where he died, among memories
of the blue hills, green maizefields, get-togethers over hemp and tobacco
with the Indians, young women in upper rooms with their aprons lifted,
pretty faces, hair spilling on the wood floors while underneath in the
stables horses kicked and drunks hollered, the starts in the very early
mornings when the backs of his herd glowed like pearl, the long, stony and
surprising road to Boston, the rain on the Connecticut River, the snuffling
good-nights of a hundred pigs among the new stars and long grass still warm
from the sun, settling down to sleep. . . .

In what sense is the word "starts" used here?
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