Now the Turtles started off. They traveled slowly on until one day they found a great tree lying across their trail.
Turtle said, “This we cannot pass unless we go around it. That would take too long. What shall we do?”
Some said, “Let us burn a hole through the trunk,” but in this they did not succeed.
Therefore they had to turn back home, but it was a long time before they came near the Indian village again. They wanted to appear as successful warriors, so as they came near, they set up the war song. The Indians heard them. They at once ran out to see the scalps and the spoils. But when they came near, the Turtles each seized an Indian by the arm and said,
“We take you our prisoners. You are our spoils.”
The Indians who were captured in this way were very angry. Now the Turtle chief had captured the young woman he said he was going to marry. He said to the Indian girl, “Now that I have you I will keep you.”
Now it was necessary to organize a dance to celebrate the victory over the Indians. Everyone dressed in his best robe and beads. Turtle sang,
“Whoever comes near me will die, will die, will die!” and the others danced around him in a circle. At once the Indians became alarmed. Each one fled to his own lodge, in the village. Turtle also went to the village, but he arrived much later because he could not travel so fast.
Someone said to him, “That girl has married another man.”
“Is that true?” stormed Turtle. “Let me see the man.”