“I am going to seek a means of subsistence,” he gave answer.
The two persons having conversed in this manner, while the two were going away together they saw that yet a giant, having threaded an elephant on a fish-hook, had cast it in a river,[3] and they asked him, “What are you doing? Why have you thrown an elephant into the water?”
The giant says, “I am trying to catch and take a sand fish. Where are you two going?” he asked these two persons.
“We are going in order to seek a means of subsistence,” these two said.
Having said, “If so, I will come with you,” and having abandoned his work, and cast away the elephant, he also set off with them, and the three persons began to go away.
While they were going thus they met with a river. They saw that in the river yet [another] giant having placed his foot across the river, from this bank to the far bank, is causing the water to stop. The giant asked, “Where are you three persons going?”
The three persons said, “We are going to seek a means of subsistence.”
“It is good. I also will come with you,” the giant said.
Well then, while these three are going, having met with yet a river, when the giant who was on the ash-heap told the other giants to hang on his body, the other giants hung on it. After that, having descended into the river, the giant began to swim in the river. At that time a fish came to swallow them. Having chopped the fish with his sword, the giant who stayed on the ash-heap, taking the fish and taking these giants, swam to the far bank.
Thereafter, a giant having gone up a tree, they told him to look for a place where there is fire. He said that a fire smoke is rising. Then they told him to mark [the direction] and bring fire.