CHAPTER X.AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND.
I HAVE now come to the most difficult part of my story.

And why?
Because I do not know enough about it.

And why should I not know as much about this part as about any other part?
For of course I could know nothing about the story except Diamond had told it; and why should not Diamond tell about the country at the back of the north wind, as well as about his adventures in getting there?
Because, when he came back, he had forgotten a great deal, and what he did remember was very hard to tell.
Things there are so different from things here! The people there do not speak the same language for one thing.

Indeed, Diamond insisted that there they do not speak at all.

I do not think he was right, but it may well have appeared so to Diamond.