You wished me not to go, because of an evil thing, a daughter of the Didi, that lived there; but I feared nothing and went.

There I met an old man, who talked to me in the white man's language.

He had travelled and seen much, and told me one strange thing.

On a mountain at Riolama he told me that he had seen a great lump of gold, as much as a man could carry.

And when I heard this I said: 'With the gold I could return to my country, and buy weapons for myself and all my people and go to war with my enemy and deprive him of all his possessions and serve him as he served me.' I asked the old man to take me to Riolama; and when he had consented I went away from here without saying a word, so as not to be prevented.