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Curious jackets with tight sleeves compressed the body. The feet throbbed and burned in close-fitting casings of un-yielding leather, and linen made stiff by artificial means was drawn tightly about the neck. Khan-li Allah! What idiots! Nofuhl Even so are they considered. Khan-Ii. To what quality of their minds do you attribute such love of needless suffering? Nofnhl.
Verily, thou hast said it! Vast sheets of paper were published daily in which all crimes were recorded in detail. The more revolting the deed, the more minute the description. Horrors were their chief delight. Scandals were drunk in with thirstful eyes. These chronicles of crime and filth were issued by hundreds of thousands. There was hardly a family in the land but had one. Khan-li.
Nofuhl. The Mehrikans had eighty heavy ships of iron, with a number of smaller craft. The allies had two hundred and forty heavy battleships, all of iron. They also had smaller craft for divers purposes. Khan-li. Allah! A bad prospect for our greedy friends! And being a nation of traders they had no liking, probably, for the perils of war. Nofuhl. As to that historians differ.
Nofuhl came into the cabin this evening with some of his metal plates and discoursed upon them. He has no respect for the intellects of the early Mehrikans. I thought for a moment I had caught him in a contradiction, but he was right as usual. It was thus: Nofuhl. They were great readers. Khan-li. You have told us they had no literature. Were they great readers of nothing? Nofuhl.
Thy guess is good, O Prince, as to the hours of fighting. It lasted just one summer afternoon. But the Mehrikans it was who sent their enemies to the bottom. And the sea beneath our feet is strewn with iron hulks. Khan-li. Bismillah! If that be a true tale and I doubt it not these greedy ones were not so contemptible, at least when there was profit in it. Lev-el-Hedyd.
This checked the prosperity of other nations, until at last the leading powers of Europe combined in self-defence against this all-absorbing greed. They collected an armada the like of which was never imagined, neither before nor since. Then, across the ocean, came the iron host. And here, upon this very spot where we are floating, they met the Mehrikan ships. Khan-li. How many ships in all?
A day like this, it was, also in June, as the Europeans, coming northward along the coast to seize Nhu-Yok, met the Mehrikan Admiral Nev-r-sai-di with his eighty ships. And the struggle was short. Khan-li. Verily, I can believe it! With three ships to one I would give the Europeans about half a day a summer afternoon like this to send the greedy ones to the bottom. Nofuhl.
But I would readily venture my head in the Zlotuhb against any of these nursery-tale wonders. Nofuhl. And with wisdom. For the loss of thy brain. Ad-el-pate, could not affect the nature of thy speech. Whereupon there was laughter, and Ad-el-pate held his peace. Khan-li. But tell us of this battle, O Nofuhl. I remember now to have read about it at college.
And how many ships did the Mehrikans lose? Nofuhl. Reports are contradictory. According to one of their own writers of the period they suffered no loss whatever in vessels. Yet at the same time he asserts, "We gave them Haleklumbya," which must be the name of a ship. Khan-li. A gallant fight! But can you explain how such an inferior people could become heroic of a sudden? Nofuhl.
The more I learn of these Mehrikans the less interesting they become. Nofuhl is of much the same mind, judging from our conversation to-day, as we walked along together. It was in this wise: Khan-li. How alike the houses! How monotonous! Nofuhl So, also, were the occupants. They thought alike, worked alike, ate, dressed and conversed alike.
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