earman

Updated: July 7, 2025

This noble, I noted, was one who had the rank of an Earman, that is, he wore in his ear, which like that of Kari was stretched out to receive it, a golden disc of the size of an apple, whereon was embossed the image of the sun. At a sign and a word from his dotard master this Larico began to speak for him as though he were the Inca himself, saying: "Hearken, O Huaracha.

Henry Rider Haggard - The Virgin of the Sun