"sarupo iko se nak ambo alah bajalan pula ka arah Sungai Nanam kalau ambo caliak tampek tu sangek rancak untuak di buek gunuang, dan di alahan panjang ko ado pulo tigo bukik jadi katigo bukik ko bia lah niniak pindahan se ka Sungai Nanam untuak di jadian gunuang.
He did not hold on for the upper mountains, however, but turned presently down out of the hills toward the flat of the valley, and there he directed his course straight toward the far-off lights of Three Rivers.