Sir Francis nodded. The rough seamen who watched might have bayed and bellowed at thespectacle of a bull-baiting or a cockfight, but even they had fallensilent, awed by the terrible tragedy they saw unfolding. They had sensed him and gone crashing away through thebrush, galloping on until the sound of their flight dwindled intosilence. They are the San.
Then she gave an urgent little cry and with a lithemovement fell upon him. Gunners! Sir Francis brandished his sword over his head to attracttheir attention. What land lies to the east? It is mountains such as these for many leagues, and then suddenly theyfall away into plains of forest and rolling grassland, with glimpses ofthe sea on the right hand. Out of the dying night rose a tall brighttower, shining and translucent as an ice-covered alp.
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