Once in the past, there was a large family of turtles that had been living for a long time in a certain lake. Then one turtle said to another: ‘Dear turtle, do not go to such and such a region.’

But the turtle went to that region, and a hunter struck him with a corded harpoon. Then that turtle approached the first one. When the first turtle saw him coming in the distance, he said to him: ‘I hope, dear turtle, that you dinn’t go to that region.’

‘I did go to that region, dear.’ 

‘I hope you haven’t been hit or struck, dear.’

‘I haven’t been hit or struck; but there is this cord constantly following behind me.’

‘Indeed you’ve been hit, dear turtle, indeed you’ve been hit. Your father and grandfather also met with calamity and disaster on account of such cord. Go now, dear turtle, you are no longer one of us.’