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Updated: May 31, 2025
He wrote to us to desire that we would wait for him at Diou, in order to embark there for the Red Sea; but being informed by us that no opportunities of going thither were to be expected at Diou, it was at length determined that we should meet at Bazaim; it was no easy matter for me to find means of going to Bazaim.
Despite the increased distance, I continue my regular visits to Diou- djen-dji. When night has fallen, and the four couples who compose our society have joined us, as well as Yves and the "amazingly tall friend" we descend again into the town, stumbling by lantern-light down the steep stairways and slopes of the old suburb.
He was sooner undeceived than I, and we met at the place where we parted in a few days; and soon afterwards left Pate to return to the Indies, and in nine-and- twenty days arrived at the famous fortress of Diou. We were told at this place that Alfonso Mendes, patriarch of AEthiopia, was arrived at Goa from Lisbon.
Through the low arched doorway, which the negress had forgotten to close, could be heard laughter, the clinking of glasses, the popping of a champagne cork and the cheerful voice of a woman singing loud and clear: "Aimes-tu Marco la belle, "La danse aux salons en fleurs..." "Tron de Diou!" Said Tartarin, blenching, and he rushed into the courtyard. Unhappy Tartarin!
I make no account of the harm Mordaunt can do!" cried D'Artagnan. "Cap de Diou! if he troubles me too much I will crush him, the insect! Do not fly, then. It is useless; for I swear to you that you are as safe here as you were twenty years, ago you, Athos, in the Rue Ferou, and you, Aramis, in the Rue de Vaugirard."
He looked round. Sundry small articles in daily use the count's pipe, his old brass tobacco-box: a few such things that a man lives with, and puts in his pocket when he goes away were missing. "Buon Diou! Buon Diou! Buon Diou gone!" muttered the priest, lapsing into his native dialect. He looked around him with keen eyes at the blackened walls, at the carpet worn into holes.
The chief men of the city, who waited for us on the shore, accompanied us through a crowd of people, whom curiosity had drawn from all parts of our college. Though our place of residence at Diou is one of the most beautiful in all the Indies, we stayed there only a few days, and as soon as we had recovered our fatigues went on board the ships that were appointed to convoy the northern fleet.
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