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Once, long ago, a fishman named Jamiliwolo lived in the village Fekifuk. Jamiliwolo found a pond where fishing was excellent, and he told nobody else about it.

A crab and a turtle who lived in the pond noticed the fish disappearing and decided to do something about it. When next the fisherman came, they waited until he had caught three fish, and on the fourth cast, the crab took his line and tied it to a tree.

When Jamiliwolo tried to pull his hook up, it would not come. It was his only hook, so he swam under the water looking to find and unsnag it. As he swam, though, the turtle came and dug its beak into the man's testicles. The man screamed, abandoned all thoughts of his hook, and ran towards his village. The turtle still hung, biting his testicles. Finally, one of the man's maternal kin killed the turtle with a knife and removed it.

When the people prepared an earth oven to cook the turtle, Jamiliwolo's testicles bled freely. The blood flowed and became a lake, which came to submerge the entire village. The people fled with what belongings they could take to another village.

This lake now has many fish in it. If you swim in it, you can see the house posts that remain of the village Fekifuk.

Slone, 2001, 2: 916-917.