“I want Isis for a husband,” said Skakas. Nada gave the same answer.
“Well,” said Kumush, “I will find out what you can do. Which of you can bring water first from that lake down there?”
Both started. Skakas found water on the way, turned around and was back first. When Nada came, she said to Skakas: “I didn’t see you at the lake.”
“I got there first; I took some water and came back. We were not there at the same time.”
“I am a fast traveler,” said Nada. “It is strange that you got back first.”
Isis drank the water Nada brought, but wouldn’t touch the water Skakas gave him.
Nada said: “We will go again. This time we will take hold of hands.” They started in the morning, got the water and Nada flew back. Skakas didn’t get back till midday.
Isis drank the water Nada brought, and said it was good, but he wouldn’t drink the water Skakas brought. Kumush tore Skakas in pieces and threw the pieces over the cliff into the lake. The pieces are in the lake now; they became rocks.
Isis and Kumush didn’t want to live where people could come, so they left their home and traveled toward the northeast. Not far from the house they put down their baskets, fish-spears, canoes and everything they had used in fishing. Those things turned to stone and are there on the cliff to-day. Kumush and Isis traveled for a long time before they came to the river that is now called Lost River. Kumush made a basket and caught a salmon in it. Then he said: “I want salmon always to be in this river, and many of them, so people will have plenty to eat.” At Nusâltgăga he made a basket and caught small fish, and said the same thing, so that there [[12]]should always be plenty of small fish in the river. He multiplied the histis, a kind of fish which Klamath Indians like.
When Isis and Kumush got to the third camping place, Kumush called it Bláielka and the mountain he called Ktáilawetĕs. He said to Isis: “You must swim in the swimming pond on this mountain, and pile up stones, and talk to the mountain.”