Here is the brook, a fine, clear little stream with a sandy bottom, and here is where the Great Bear knelt and drank of the cool water.
The prints of his strong knees show like carving on a wall.

Finding that he was still thirsty he came back for another drink, because the second prints are a little distance from the first.
"Then, after rejoicing over the tender goose and his renewed strength, he suddenly became very cautious.

The danger from the warriors, which he had forgotten or overlooked in his hunger, returned in acute form to his mind.
He came to the brook a third time, but not to drink.

He intended to wade in the stream that he might hide his trail, which, as you well know, Dagaeoga, is the oldest and best of all forest devices for such purposes.

How many millions of times must the people of the wilderness have used it! "Now the Great Bear had two ways to go in the water, up the stream or down the stream, and you and I, Dagaeoga, think he went down the stream, because the current leads on the whole eastward, which was the way in which he wished to go.