I did not see all at this first walk, but I inspected the whole city in many subsequent walks until its outlines were all familiar.

I found it about a mile long and about half a mile wide, constructed in a series of terraces, which rose one above another in a hollow of the mountains round a harbor of the sea.

On my walks I met with but few people on the streets, and they all seemed troubled with the light.

I saw also occasionally some more of those great birds, the name of which I learned from Almah; it was "opkuk." For some time my life went on most delightfully.

I found myself surrounded with every comfort and luxury.