He was discouraged and wept all day long. At night the elk came to him and said, "Go to sleep; I will take you over to _Pa´howa_." The man slept and the elk took him on its back and carried him while asleep, and the next morning he found himself on that point of _Pa´howa_.
That night the messenger bird came to him and said, "Now, my friend, follow me, and what you see me do, that do yourself. When I dive down into _Pa´howa_, you follow me." The bird dived down into the spring, and the young man jumped after him, and again found himself standing at the door of a lodge, and the same things took place as before. Here the same animals were the head doctors. The chief head doctor talked to the boy and said, "My friend, I am sorry you have come to me in the condition you are in. My friend, this is something impossible. If it were anything else it might be possible for us to cure your trouble. Nothing like it was ever known before."
When he had said this he turned to the _Nahu´rac_ and said, "Now you shall be the leaders. If there are any of you who understand things like this; if any of you can take the lead in things like this, why do it. It is beyond my power. Say what shall be done, any of you. My mind would be big if any of you could take pity on this poor man."
Another one of the _Nahu´rac_ stood up and spoke, "My brother [to the white beaver], and my brother [to the young man], do not feel hard at me. This is beyond my power. I cannot do anything to help him." So it went around the circle, every one saying that it was impossible. After it had gone round, the head doctor again stood up and said, "Now, my friend, you can see that it is impossible to cure you of this trouble, but there is another lodge of the _Nahu´rac_ on the west side of the Loup River. You go there." Then they put him to sleep, and when he awoke next morning, he was on top of the ground near _Pa´howa_.
That night the elk took him while he was asleep to the place on the Loup. The next night he was sitting on the ground there, and the bird came to him, and he followed the bird down over the bank and into the _Nahu´rac_ lodge. Here the head doctors were the same animals, and they made speeches as had been done at the other places, and, as before, it was left to the assembly, and all agreed that it was beyond their power. Then the white beaver directed him to go to an island in the Platte, near the Lone Tree, where there was another lodge of the _Nahu´rac_. The elk took him to this island. Under the center of this island was the lodge. The messenger bird was with him and went into the lodge and asked the _Nahu´rac_ to help him. The white beaver made a speech, and said, "My friend, I have heard the condition that you are in. Of all these lodges that you have visited, that lodge at _Pa-huk´_ is the head. I want you to go back there, and tell the leaders there that they are the rulers, and that whatever they shall do will be right, and will be agreed to by the other lodges. They must help you if they can. If they cannot do it, no one can."