Kim was in command of the palace guards.

Kwan Yung- jin, the provincial governor who had planked and beaten us when we were first cast away, I had shorn of power and banished for ever from appearing within the walls of Keijo.
Oh, and Johannes Maartens.

Discipline is well hammered into a sea-cuny, and, despite my new greatness, I could never forget that he had been my captain in the days we sought new Indies in the _Sparwehr_.

According to my tale first told in Court, he was the only free man in my following.
The rest of the cunies, being considered my slaves, could not aspire to office of any sort under the crown.

But Johannes could, and did.