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Updated: June 18, 2025
The man arose, and looked at the bystanders, but they turned away. "A hundred noumiae for two willing hands!" he shouted. There was no reply. "If not for the money, then in honor of the noble lady who has feasted you and your wives and children." A voice answered out of the throng: "Here am I!" and presently the hamari appeared with the bear behind him.
Sergius stepped over the balustrade; but before he could get further, a number of men were on the stage making to the rescue. And seeing them come, the hamari laid one hand on the strap, and with the other caught the tongue protruding from Joqard's open jaws; as a further point in the offensive so suddenly resumed, he planted a foot heavily on one of his antagonist's.
Immediately the son of the proud Caucasian dam was flat on the boards simulating death. Then everybody understood the play, and the merriment was heightened by the speech the hamari found opportunity to make his rescuers before they could recover from their astonishment and break up the tableau they formed.
Only the hamari eschewed the resort for the present. He cast a look forward, and said quickly: "Attend, comrades!" Thereupon he added weight to his left delivery, altering the course to an angle which, if pursued, must widen the circle around the galley instead of contracting it.
And while it went on, the worse than confused mass drifted away from the ship's side, leaving a clear space through which, with the first shout heard from him during the race, the hamari urged his crew, and rounded the goal. On the far Therapian shore the multitude were silent.
Standing upon the seat, the hamari raised his voice: "Ho, here there every one!" and drawing a purse from his bosom, he waved it overhead, with a louder shout, "See! a hundred noumiae, and not all copper either. Piece against piece weighed or counted, I put them in wager! Speak one or all. Who dares the chance?"
Here, some of you take the beast off my hands. Fear not, friend, Joqard's worst growl is inoffensive as thunder without lightning. That's a good man." And with the words the hamari released the leading strap, sprang into the boat, and without giving time for protest or remonstrance, threw off his jacket and sandals, tucked up his shirt-sleeves, and dropped into the vacant fifth seat.
On nearing the goal the rush of the boats grew fiercer; each foreman, considering it honor lost, if not a fatal mischance, did he fail to be first at the turning-point, persisted in driving straight forward a madness which the furious yelling of the people on the marker's deck intensified. This was exactly what the hamari had foreseen.
Laughter, clapping of hands, and other expressions of delight succeeded. "Go, Sergius, and see what is taking place," said the Princess. Glad of the opportunity to terminate the painful scene, he hastened to the reservoirs and returned. "Your presence will restore quiet at once." The people made way for their hostess with alacrity. The hamari, it appeared, had just arrived from the garden.
"I will give you a noumia, if you will give me an answer." "A bargain a bargain, with witnesses!" Then after a glance into the faces around, as if summoning attention to the offer, the hamari proceeded. "Listen. I say the brass up there proves Prince Mahommed was here in person.
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