His uncle nodded.
"Are you a hunter ?" he asked.
"Not yet, I am only learning." "Why do you learn ?" "In order to know." "When you once know, what can you do then ?" "I can--" Okoya was embarrassed.

"I can make the Shiuana help me." "That is it!" Hayoue exclaimed.

"If the Shiuana do not help, you can do nothing; no matter how swift you run, how far you see, and how sure your aim is.

But of the Shiuana there are many, as many as grains of sand on the shore of the great river below here, and when we do not know them we cannot speak to them and beg for assistance.

Just as there are Shiuana who assist the hunter, there are those who help us, that we may strike the enemy and take away from him what makes him strong, that it may strengthen us.