Twice, stranger, the current bore me under, and those on the bank shouted that I was lost; but I rose again, and in the end I won the farther shore.
"Now those on the bank mocked no more; they stood still wondering, and I walked on till I came to the foot of the cliff.

That cliff is hard to climb, stranger; when you are strong upon your feet, I will show you the path.

Yet I found a way up it, and by midday I came to the forest.

Here, on the edge of the forest, I rested awhile, and ate a little food that I had brought with me in the bag, for now I must gather up my strength to meet the ghosts, if ghosts there were.

Then I rose and plunged into the forest.