human
Which way does your path lie?
gpt
Down the river, and then up into the mountains.
human
Yoh! exclaimed the chief, astonished,
gpt
We undertook this journey for a purpose, and it is not now we will turn back. You will come with us?
human
When Sirayo sets forth on a journey, he knows beforehand whither he goes and why. You are not hunting, and your lives are dearer to you than the sight of the mountain.
gpt
We have heard a tale of a yellow rock that lies beyond the mountain, and we would see whether the tale is true.
human
Soh! I have heard that tale from the people we have left. They have talked much about it, and of a strange man who knows of it. Many, they say, have set out to find that rock, but never one came back.
gpt
Then it is there?
human
Oh, ay; yet if it has not been found it may not exist. A tale grows easily out of nothing, and lives long on the tongues of old men. This rock has been polished by the gossips till it shines like a flame, but the man who set the tale going may have seen only the sun striking on a girl's armlet.
gpt
Well, we will search for it, and with your aid.
human
We must cover up the spoor. Let your friend come with me so that we may lay a new spoor away from this, and do you keep on the river.