Then Loku-Appuhāmi said, “Having gone to the bottom of the water in the river, when I looked these were [there]. After that, having looked out a good one from them (i.e., a good drove of bulls), [after] selecting it I came away,” he said.
Having heard that word, the party, as many as stayed at home, said, “We also having gone there, put us into the river to bring an excellent[5] bit of pack-bull drove.”
Having said, “It is good,” calling the party, Loku-Appuhāmi put a person into the water. Then, having gone into the water, when dying he made a sound, “Boka, Boka,”[6] and dust came to the surface.
Then the party who stayed on the bank asked, “What, Loku-Appuhāmi, is that?”
Loku-Appuhāmi says, “That is [because] he is finding excellent droves of pack-bulls.”
Then the other persons, also, who were on the bank, said, “If so, put us in also, to select good droves of pack-bulls and come.”
After that, he put that party in also. In that very way the whole of the persons went and died in the river.
Loku-Appuhāmi having returned, taking all the goods that were in those persons’ houses, went to those persons’ houses. Having gone, he became rich to a good degree (hon̆da haeṭiyaṭa).
North-western Province.