And the village awoke and crowded about the lodge of Sky-Walker, who came forth and said:
“Go away! Something great has happened to my nu-zhinga [boy], and he is about to tell me his dream.”
And the people went away, awed and silent.
In the stillness of his lodge Sky-Walker gazed upon the boy’s face and said:
“What has Wa-choo-bay seen?”
And Wa-choo-bay said:
“I went far into a lonesome place; there was nothing but the crows and the prairie and the sky. I lifted my hands and my voice as you told me. I said the words you told me. Then I slept, and when I awoke this is what I remembered; the rest was like big things moving in the mist.
“I was on the shore of the Ne Shoda [Missouri], and a little canoe came up to me, and I got in, for a voice told me to get in. Then the canoe swam out into the water and went fast. I went toward the place of summer. I rode far, many sleeps, and then as I was about to come to the end of my long riding, I awoke. Four times I saw this, and then I came here. What does it mean?”
“I do not know,” said Sky-Walker. “I must think hard, and then maybe I will know.”
And Sky-Walker shut himself in his lodge and thought hard for four sleeps. And when the fifth morning came he said to Wa-choo-bay: