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Let us pray most fervently that is not so. Even the standard of theCouncil of Seventeen was genuine. By thedeep twenty! Top of the tide in an hour. At last asthe dawn started to define the tops of the thorn trees against thepaling sky the lions seemed to have assuaged their appetites.

Have you thoughtwhat might happen if one of your fiendish vessels drifts past the markand comes down upon us here? Dismasted as we are, we cannot manoeuvrethe ship. He knewof the danger of crocodiles and would not risk sending men over theside to drag the boats over the bar. Beyond him he saw something else lift on the crest ofa dark swell, something black and round. Two! The watchers counted, and the man shrieked again and writhed inhis bonds, his toes dancing a tattoo of pain on the deck timbers.