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Updated: June 20, 2025
"True, Maikar, and we must lose them all, and more if we had them, rather than become slaves." "You are right, captain. We never, never shall be slaves," said Bladud. They say that history repeats itself. Perhaps sentiment does the same.
Bladud looked at Maikar, who also smiled and shook his head. "If you want my opinion," said the little man, gravely, "it is that when two great, good and wise men differ so widely, it is more than likely the truth lies somewhere between them. In my judgment, therefore, the Cassiterides lie yonder." He pointed with an air of confidence in a north-west direction.
To do the scout justice, he played his part like a brave and active warrior, so that it seemed to rain blows and digs in all directions, and, once or twice, as by a miracle, Maikar escaped what threatened to be little, if at all, short of extermination. As in running, so in fighting, it is the pace that kills. After five minutes or so both combatants were winded.
After that the captain talked no more about "luck," and Maikar, shutting his mouth with a snap, as if he felt that no words could do justice to his feelings, sprang up and hastened to commence the operation of flaying and cutting up the fawn.
Having laid the foundations of the new town, drawn out his plans and set his men to work, Bladud appointed Captain Arkal superintendent, and set out on his quest after his lost friend Cormac, taking Dromas and Maikar along with him and four of the men one of them being Konar the hunter. Brownie was also an important member of the party, for his master hoped much from his power of scent.
"Not killed, I see," remarked the mate, looking into his face with some anxiety. "No, not quite," sighed Maikar, drawing a long breath, and raising himself on one elbow, with a slightly dazed look, "but I never was so nearly burst in all my life. If an ox had fallen on me he could not have squeezed me flatter.
"Exactly so," continued Maikar in an eager tone, "and of course these also must have had two grandfathers besides a mother each, and it is more than likely that the great sea-serpent himself is the father of a large family." "Which implies a wife," suggested one of the seamen.
"I swim like a fish," returned the captain, "but it is hard to part from my Penelope! She has never failed me till now, and as this venture contains all my goods, I am a ruined man." "But your life still remains," said the prince. "Be of good cheer, captain. A stout man can make his fortune more than once. Come, let us go." A loud cry from Maikar at that moment hastened their deliberations.
Most of the people, however, looked on in anxious silence. "I did not think he would give in so easily," murmured little Maikar regretfully. "He has not given in yet," returned the captain, with a satisfied nod. "See he pulls up!" This was true. To the unbounded surprise of the spectators, Bladud had actually stopped a moment to tighten his belt at the beginning of the tenth round.
"You've heard, no doubt, of the great sea-serpent?" observed little Maikar, who had speedily recovered from the flattening to which Bladud had subjected him, and was busy enlivening a knot of young fellows in the bow of the ship. "Of course we have!" cried one; "father used to tell me about it when I was but a small boy.
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