Note 7 — A-slender-one-who-was-given-away

When she again fastened her eyes on the place where he sat, she said: “I know you.” And then he stood up. And he went down on the beach and stood near her. Then she said to him: “Do you travel hither expecting to see the chief’s child?” He said “Yes.” “You see this town. He thought grease into his son’s wife’s mind7 because he gave away his father’s hat as soon as he married the chief’s child.8 She is lying over there in a cave. When you have entered pass along by the right side of the chief’s house and go behind the screen. There you will hear news.”