"our visitor who is sitting before you all is the august grandson of amaterasu. his name is hohodemi, the fourth augustness, and he is also called the happy hunter of the mountains. while he was fishing the other day upon the shore of japan, some one robbed him of his brother's fishing hook. he has come all this way down to the bottom of the sea to our kingdom because he thought that one of you fishes may have taken the hook from him in mischievous play. if any of you have done so you must immediately return it, or if any of you know who the thief is you must at once tell us his name and where he is now."