First then, I would send five thousand swordsmen across that ford and let them creep down on the navy of the Great King where the sailors revel in safety, or sleep sound, and fire the ships.

The wind blows strongly from the south and the flames will leap fast from one of them to the other.

Most of their crews will be burned and the rest can be slain by our five thousand." "Good, very good," said the holy Tanofir, "but not enough, seeing that on the eastern bank is gathered the host of over two hundred thousand men.

Now how will you deal with _them_, Karema ?" "I seem to see a road yonder beyond the swamp.

It runs on the edge of the desert but behind the sand-hills.