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"A little rest will suffice, for my head is noted for its thickness, and my brain for its solidity at least so my good father was wont to say; and I've always had great respect for his opinion." "Ah, save when it ran counter to your own," suggested Arkal; "and especially that time when you ran away from home and came out here in the long ship of my trading friend."
The turn of thought silenced both speakers for a time; and when Captain Arkal turned to resume the conversation, he found that his friend was sound asleep. Weather has always been, and, we suppose, always will be, capricious.
Standing close to the side of the ship, he laid hold of a stanchion and looked out to windward, as most of the crew were by that time doing. Captain Arkal himself took the helm. The increasing daylight showed them that the bank of cloud was spreading quickly over the sky towards the zenith, while a soft hissing sound told of the approaching wind.
"Dried meat!" exclaimed little Maikar, his eyes and indeed his whole visage blazing with delighted surprise. "Right. Maikar. I knew that you would be hungry when we got ashore, so I caught up two pieces of meat and stuffed them into my breast just as we were leaving one for Arkal and me; the other for you. It may not be quite enough, perhaps, but will do, I hope, to keep you quiet till morning."
He caught the poor man under the armpits with both hands, turned on his back and drew him on to his chest. Swimming thus on his back, with Captain Arkal leading so as to keep them in the right direction, the three were ultimately cast, in a rather exhausted condition, on the shore of the little bay.
It is said that, owing to the genial influence of Bladud's kind nature, Konar recovered his reason, and, forgetting the false fair-one who had jilted him, took to himself a helpmate who more than made up for her loss. Captain Arkal soon found that his passion for hot water cooled. As it did so, his love for salt water revived.
But have you given up all thought of returning to your native land, Arkal? Do you mean to settle here?" "Nay, verily that be far from me! Have I not a fair wife in Hellas, who is as the light of mine eyes; and a little son who is as the plague of my life?
During the remainder of that day Gadarn could do little else than chuckle or laugh. Bladud's comment was that it had been "most successful." "A bloodless victory!" remarked Beniah. "And didn't they yell?" said Arkal. "And splutter?" added Maikar.
It is thought that in this case, as with other domestic animals, there has been a mixture of species, and in this connection attention was directed to the Transcaspian arkal, the argalis of the interior of Asia and the North African species. Dr.
"True, but I am the humble friend of both," retorted the captain, "and am bound to accommodate myself to them. I suppose this is the prince you spoke of," he added, turning to the towering youth already referred to, with the air of a man who had as little or as much regard for a prince as a peasant. "Yes, Captain Arkal, this is Prince Bladud. Let me present him to you."
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