While she was meditating on what was to be done, the thought struck her that it would be advisable to attach as many pieces of copper to her dress as she could, and then proceed into the interior, in search of some inhabitants, who, she supposed, would give her a favourable reception, on account of the treasure she had brought.
"It happened that she met her own relations, and the young men, elated with the account she had given of the hill, made her instantly return with them; which she was enabled to do, having taken the precaution of putting up marks to indicate the path.

The party reached the spot in safety, but the story had a melancholy catastrophe.

These youths overcome by excess of joy, gave loose to their passions, and offered the grossest insults to their benefactress.

She powerfully resisted them for some time, and when her strength was failing, fled to the point of the mountain, as the only place of security.

The moment she had gained the summit, the earth opened and ingulphed both herself and the mountain, to the utter dismay of the men, who were not more astonished at its sudden disappearance, than sorrowful for this just punishment of their wickedness.