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By Right of Conquest

CHAPTER 9: Life In A Palace
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We do trade with many peoples.

For example there is, far to the south of us, a great land wholly inhabited by people who are quite black." A general exclamation of astonishment broke from the party.
"They must be frightful!" the young queen exclaimed.
"They are very ugly," Roger said, "with very wide mouths and very thick lips, and flat noses; and instead of having long soft hair, they have only a short, curly sort of black wool on the top of their heads." "Have you seen them yourself ?" asked Cacama, rather gravely.
"I have seen some of them, Sire," Roger replied.

"I was in a ship that was attacked by others, manned by a people who live on the northern coast of this land, and who are themselves not black but yellow; and they had with them several of these people of whom I speak, who were frightful in their ugliness; but who, to do them justice, fought bravely, though we managed at last to beat them off.
"I pray your Majesty not to doubt any facts that I may tell you, for in my country it is considered disgraceful to lie; and however extraordinary some of the things I may say may appear to you, I can assure you that they will all be absolutely true.

They may seem to you hard to believe, but you must remember that things which are strange to us always seem wonderful.

My own countrymen, for example, would find it hard to believe that there could be a people who took delight in drawing in the smoke of a burning vegetable, and puffing it out again." "I will not doubt what you say, in future," Cacama said.


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