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And Tromp would maunder over and over of how Johannes Maartens and the cunies robbed the kings on Tabong Mountain, each embalmed in his golden coffin with an embalmed maid on either side; and of how these ancient proud ones crumbled to dust within the hour while the cunies cursed and sweated at junking the coffins.
The taxes scarce paid the collecting, and the governorship was little more than an empty honour. The place was in truth a graveyard a sacred graveyard, for on Tabong Mountain were shrined and sepultured the bones of the ancient kings of Silla.
And while Yunsan nodded, while I devoted myself to sport and to the Lady Om, while Hendrik Hamel perfected plans for the looting of the Imperial treasury, and while Johannes Maartens schemed his own scheme among the tombs of Tabong Mountain, the volcano of Chong Mong- ju's devising gave no warning beneath us. Lord, Lord, when the storm broke!
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