“Where has he gone?” asked one boy.
“I cannot tell,” answered another.
Soon they heard singing.
One asked, “Do you hear that?”
“Yes,” said the other; “where is it?”
They listened and looked. Soon they saw Kol Tibichi sitting near the north bank of the river, under water.
“We must run and tell his father and mother.”
Two of the boys ran to tell his father and mother. “We lost your son,” said they. “He went away from us. We looked for him a long time and could not find him. Now we have found him; we have seen him sitting under water; we don’t know what he is doing.”
His mother hurried out; ran to the river.
“We think he must be dead,” said people who had gathered there. “We think that some yapaitu [spirit] has killed him.”