So they divided into two parties and searched the shore in different
directions until they finally met on the other side, then they
scattered and examined every nook and corner of the place--but all in
vain. Some now contended that the others were mistaken, and that that
could not be the island on which the Brother had been working; but The
Bear--though he had not seen the cripple there--insisted that it was.
They asked him to prove it.

"The wind has been blowing steadily from the north," replied The Bear,
"the other islands are all south of this one, and you know that we
found his canoe adrift south of here and north of all the other
islands. That is sufficient proof." Then he added: "The reason
Simpson's Brother did not answer is because he is not on the island,
but in the water."

Again they all clamoured for proof and The Bear answered: "But first I
must find where he landed, and the quickest way to find that place is
to remember that the wind was blowing too strong for him to land on the
north shore, and that the running swells were too strong for him to
land on either the east or west sides, therefore he landed on the south
side--the sheltered side. Now let us go and see where he drew up his
canoe."

But one of the others argued that that would be impossible as Simpson's
Brother was not such a fool as to act like a white man and drag his
canoe over the rocks. The Bear, however, persisted that there would be
some sign, at least where the bow touched shore when the cripple got
out, and that he, The Bear, would go and find it. But first he would
go and examine the nests to learn from which of them the cripple had