She said:
“I never go to the river in the daytime.”
He continued to ask, saying again:
“I die with thirst.”
Then she took a milk-basket and a calabash ladle, and went weeping to the river. She dipped the ladle in the water, and it was drawn out of her hand. She dipped the milk-basket in the water, and it was drawn away from her. Then she tried to take some water in her mantle, and she was drawn under the surface. After a little time the girl was sent to look for her, but she came back, saying:
“I found her not who is accustomed to draw water only in the night.”
Her father-in-law drove oxen quickly to the [[60]]river. He took the big ox that was called by her name and killed it. He put all the flesh and everything else that was of that ox into the river, saying:
“Let this be instead of my child.”
A voice was heard saying:
“Go to my father and my mother and say to them that I am taken by the river.”