"Those long arms of his would pull us to the bottom," they said; "but we will watch till he comes up, and then we shall be sure of him."
They were not so sure as they thought, for he did not come up, and all that they could see in the water was a strange creature unlike anything that had been there before.
"It has arms and a head," said one.
"And it pulls them out of sight just as Turtle did," said another.
"It has a shield over its back and one over its breast, as Turtle had," said the first. Then all the warriors were so eager to watch the strange animal that they no longer remembered the fight. They crowded up to the shore of the river.
"It is not Turtle," cried one.
"It is Turtle," declared another.
"It is so like him that I do not care to go into the water as long as it is in sight," said still another.
"But if this is not Turtle, where is he?" they all asked, and not one of the wise men of their tribe could answer.