Still, the father wished to see him.
“If the wakanda’s wife gives you back your child, she desires a very white dog as pay.”
“I promise to give her the white dog,” said the father.
Again the two men painted themselves; the one made himself very black, the other made himself very yellow. Again they went beneath the water. They arrived at the place again.
“The father said we were to take the child back at any cost; he spoke of seeing his child.”
So the wakanda gave the child back to them; homeward they went with him. When they reached the surface of the water with him, the child died. They gave him back to his father. Then all the people wailed when they saw the child, their relation.
They plunged the white-haired dog into the water. When they had buried the child they gave pay to the two men.
After a while, the parents lost another child, a girl, in the same way, they say. But she did not eat any of the wakanda’s food, therefore they took her home alive. But it was another wakanda who took her, and he promised to give her back if they would give him four white-haired dogs.