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Yoomy was at a loss to account for the departure of Samoa; who, while ashore, had expressed much desire to roam. Media, however, declared that he must be returning to some inamorata. But Babbalanja averred, that the Upoluan was not the first man, who had turned back, after beginning a voyage like our own. To this, after musing, Yoomy assented.
Sailing past Pella, we gained a view of its farther side; and seated in a lofty cleft, beheld a lonely fisherman; solitary as a seal on an iceberg; his motionless line in the water. "What recks he of the ten kings," said Babbalanja. "Mohi," said Media, "methinks there is another tradition concerning that rock: let us have it."
"No," said Babbalanja, "a fence whose gate is ever kept open, seems unnecessary, I grant; nevertheless, it gives a notable hint, otherwise not so aptly conveyed; for is not the open gate the sign of the open heart?" "Right, right," cried Borabolla; "so enter both, cousin Media;" and with one hand smiting his chest, with the other he waved us on.
"Poor fellow!" cried Babbalanja; "I fear me his harvest is not yet ripe." "Alas!" cried Yoomy; "he died more than a century ago." "But now that you speak of unappreciated poets, Yoomy," said Babbalanja, "Shall I give you a piece of my mind?" "Do," said Mohi, stroking his beard. "He, who on all hands passes for a cypher to-day, if at all remembered hereafter, will be sure to pass for the same.
Francis; but with those ropes, before their palaces, they hung Innocence and Truth. As still seeking Yillah, and still disappointed, we roved through the lands which these chieftains ruled, Babbalanja exclaimed "Let us depart; idle our search, in isles that have viceroys for kings."
If a birth into brightness, then Mardi must seem to them the most trivial of reminiscences. Or, perhaps, theirs may be an utter lapse of memory concerning sublunary things; and they themselves be not themselves, as the butterfly is not the larva." Said Yoomy, "Then, Babbalanja, you account that a fit illustration of the miraculous change to be wrought in man after death?"
And now, while all present were crying out in admiration of Samoa's artistic skill, and Samoa himself stood complacently regarding his workmanship, Babbalanja suggested, that it might be well to ascertain whether the patient survived. When, upon sounding his heart, the diver was found to be dead. The bystanders loudly lamented; but declared the surgeon a man of marvelous science.
And so saying, he humorously commanded his attendants to lay hands upon the bedeviled philosopher, and place a bandage upon his mouth, that he might no more disseminate his devilish doctrine. Against this, Babbalanja demurred, protesting that he was no orang- outang, to be so rudely handled.
"My lord," said Babbalanja, "here's collateral proof; the sage lawgiver Yamjamma, who flourished long before Bardianna, roundly asserts, that all men who knowingly do evil are bedeviled; for good is happiness; happiness the object of living; and evil is not good."
Not by hands, but by calling in the magicians. Thus far, nevertheless, in vain. But Uhia had hopes. Now, informed of all this, said Babbalanja to Media, "My lord, if the continual looking-forward to something greater, be better than an acquiescence in things present; then, wild as it is, this belief of Uhia's he should hug to his heart, as erewhile his wives.
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