Welcome to you, a thousand welcomes, and to you too, Light-in-Darkness, Lord-of-the-Fire, Cunning-one whose wit saved us in the battle of the Gate.

But where is Dogeetah, where is Wazeela, and where are the Mother and the Child of the Flower ?" "Far away across the Black Water, Babemba," I answered.

"But here are two others in place of them," and I introduced him to Ragnall and Savage by their native names of Igeza and Bena.
He contemplated them for a moment, then said: "This," pointing to Ragnall, "is a great lord, but this," pointing to Savage, who was much the better dressed of the two, "is a cock of the ashpit arrayed in an eagle's feathers," a remark I did not translate, but one which caused Hans to snigger vacuously.
While we breakfasted on food prepared by the "Cock of the Ashpit," who amongst many other merits had that of being an excellent cook, I heard all the news.

Bausi the king was dead but had been succeeded by one of his sons, also named Bausi, whom I remembered.

Beza-Town had been rebuilt after the great fire that destroyed the slavers, and much more strongly fortified than before.