He was left all alone as the darkness began to fall.
“If I don’t want to stay in this tree for the rest of my life,” he said to himself, “I’ll just have to jump into the air like the crows”.
So he took a deep breath, jumped, and…PLOP! He fell into the river right among the crocodiles.

“What do we have here?” said a gruff crocodile voice. “A tasty morsel to eat, nyum…” “Oh please don’t,” said Anansi. And he began to cry. “I’m one of you, don’t you know? I got lost in the days of your grandfathers and no one was able to find me. You’re the first of my relatives I’ve ever met!”
He cried so much that the crocodiles felt sorry for him.