"Them things told the Kanakys that ef they mixed bloods there'd be children as ud look human at fust, but later turn more'n more like the things, till finally they'd take to the water an' jine the main lot o' things daown thar. An' this is the important part, young feller-them as turned into fish things an' went into the water wouldn't never die. Them things never died excep' they was kilt violent."