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"Of what use, Larree?" he said, quietly. "Me you can slay but in the end you will be taken. Life is not held so dear in Muria that my men out there or those others who can come quickly will let you by even though you slay many. And in the end they will overpower you." There was a trace of irresolution in O'Keefe's face. "And," added Rador, "if I let you go I dance with the Shining One or worse!"
"There came no command to me." Little beads of sweat stood out on Serku's forehead. "Serku," interrupted the green dwarf swiftly, "truly is my heart wrung for you. This is a matter of Yolara and of Lugur and the Council; yes, even of the Shining One! And the message was sent and the fate, mayhap, of all Muria rested upon your obedience and the return of Lakla with these strangers to the Council.
"For, lo! the hosts of Yolara have been beaten back; and on the bridge comes Nak with tidings." We looked over the parapet. It was even as she had said. Neither on ledge nor bridge was there trace of living men of Muria only heaps of slain that lay everywhere and thick against the cavern mouth still danced the flashing atoms of those the green ray had destroyed.
"I am done with Lugur and with Yolara and the Shining One!" cried Rador. "My hand is for you three and for Lakla and those to whom she is handmaiden!" The shell leaped forward; seemed to fly. A tal in Muria is the equivalent of thirty hours of earth surface time. The Casting of the Shadow
They have also some strong fortresses in Mozambique and Sofala. I omit also to speak of many islands which we saw by the way, such as the island of Cumeris, or Curia Muria, and six others, which produce plenty of ginger, sugar, and other goodly fruits, and the most fruitful island of Penda, which is likewise subject to the Portuguese.
"In Muria," he said at last, "the men are like me or like Lugur. Our women are as you see them like Yolara or those two who served you." He hesitated. "And there is a third; but only one." Larry leaned forward eagerly. "Brown-haired with glints of ruddy bronze, golden-eyed, and lovely as a dream, with long, slender, beautiful hands?" he cried.
"Since then time upon time had passed," she went on, unheeding. "The people called this place Muria after their sunken land and soon they forgot where had been the passage the Taithu had sealed. The moon king became the Voice of the Dweller and always with the Voice is a woman of the moon king's kin who is its priestess.
If we had stayed in the vicinity of Kuria Muria Bay, we might have got five days more of it; but this is a local storm, and we shall doubtless run out of it in a day or two at most, and come again into the region of the north-east monsoon." "I hope so for the sake of those in the cabin; and I did not think of the local feature you mention."
Those who embraced Islamism on the preaching of the prophet Houd were spared, but the rest either were suffocated by a stifling wind or survived in the form of apes, whose descendants still inhabit Jebel Shemshan at Aden. A remnant are also said to have fled to the Kuria Muria Islands.
Pedro Raphael, Hernan Rodriguez Badarsas, and Diego Perez were convinced of the council of the Moors being good, and therefore quitted these islands on the last day of April; but Sodre would not listen to their advice and remained with his brother at Curia Muria.
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