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Problem not. Someone was going to tellhim an important fact, or something was going to change, and then everything would be clear. notice a sameness tothe tales--in his own memory, Upaut was as stalwart and inexhaustible as any fertility deity--andby t There were even roundballs of loose vegetable matter that spun through the air like tumbleweeds, having no contact withthe ground at all.

At the last moment, something seemed toease their fall and slide them safely onto the river, which was horizontal again. In the gray dawn light, their prisoner was revealed to be essentially human, tall and ropy andwith mottled gray-brown skin, wearing nothing but a grimy loincloth. A second later he knew what it was. s flag and all their turbans trailing in the waterbehind them, and they were firing their cannons until everyone thought the