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Book 13. (305 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
53	162	"Msaliti would then have no alternative but to tell Bila Huruma of the ring, and then join with him in Bila Huruma's attempt to seize it, hoping later to secure it for himself".	10
1	226	"Have you heard of Bila Huruma?" asked Samos.	10
1	229	Shaba's nine boats had fixed at their masts the tufted shields of the officialdom of Bila Huruma".	10
1	232	I think it true, however, had it not been for the authority of Bila Huruma, Ubar of Ushindi, they could not have completed their work".	10
1	233	"The hegemony of Bila Huruma over the northern shores, then, is substantial but incomplete," I said.	10
1	237	"I find it impressive," I said, "that a man such as Bila Huruma would be interested in supporting a geographical expedition".	10
1	245	But surely, even if you are not familiar with the role of Bila Huruma in these things, you have heard of the further discoveries of Shaba".	10
1	255	He then continued west until he reached the six ubarates and the heartland of Bila Huruma".	10
1	259	"The next year," I said, "he mounted a new expedition, with eleven boats and a thousand men, an expedition financed, I now suppose, by Bila Huruma, to explore Lake Ngao, to circumnavigate it as he had Ushindi".	10
1	266	"The falls and cataracts of Bila Huruma, as he named them," said Samos.	10
1	718	"That is the country of Bila Huruma".	10
1	732	"Beware of Bila Huruma," said Samos.	10
1	734	"The pole and platform below, on which is held prisoner our lovely guest," said Samos, "was suggested to me by a peacekeeping device of Bila Huruma.	10
5	322	"Yes," said Ulafi, "even from the interior, from the ubarate of Bila Huruma".	10
6	83	The inland language, or, better, one of its dialects, is, of course, the language of the court of Bila Huruma, Shaba's patron and supporter.	10
7	88	"Bila Huruma, Ubar of Lake Ushindi, uses them for work on his great canal".	10
7	100	Indeed, only this year Bila Huruma has demanded quotas of men from Schendi herself".	10
7	107	"You have, of course, nonetheless refused the request of Bila Huruma for men," I said.	10
7	110	"Bila Huruma has an army at his command, organized, trained, disciplined, effective," said Uchafu.	10
15	350	"I am the high wazir of Bila Huruma".	10
16	42	He had been put on the work levy for the canal of Bila Huruma.	10
16	46	Happily, for me, he could also speak the tongue of the court of Bila Huruma.	10
16	61	Needless to say Bila Huruma had adopted and improved this device and it had played, and continued to play, its role in the effectiveness of his military machine and in the efficiency of the administration of his ubarate.	10
16	64	I found it astonishing, and I think most Goreans would have, even those of Schendi, that a ubarate of the size and sophistication of that of Bila Huruma could exist in the equatorial interior.	10
16	65	One of the most amazing evidences of its scope and ambition was the very project in which I was now unwillingly engaged, the visionary attempt to join Lakes Ushindi and Ngao, separated by more than four hundred pasangs, by a great canal, a canal that would, via Lake Ushindi and the Nyoka and Kamba r...	10
16	84	The intent of the engineers of Bila Huruma was to set in place two parallel walls, low walls, some five or six feet high, placed about two hundred yards apart.	10
16	88	The eventual intent of Bila Huruma was not only to open the rain forests of the deep interior, and whatever might lie within the system of the Ua and her tributaries, to commercial exploitation and military expansion, but to drain the marshes between the two mighty lakes, Ushindi and Ngao, that that...	10
16	89	It was the intent of Bila Huruma not only to consolidate a ubarate but found a civilization.	10
16	110	"It must constitute a financial strain on the coffers of the ubarate of Bila Huruma.	10
16	114	"They fear Bila Huruma," I said.	10
16	143	"Besides," said he, "most of these men are, in their way, loyal subjects of Bila Huruma.	10
16	147	"There are two obvious ways in which Bila Huruma might be stopped," said Ayari.	10
16	154	"Bila Huruma, in virtue of the discoveries of Shaba," said Ayari, "has claimed all lands in the Lake Ngao region.	10
16	170	"If they are successful," said Ayari, "that will finish organized resistance to Bila Huruma".	10
16	173	"Bila Huruma," he said, "it is well known, has bought off the chieftains of the Ukungu region.	10
16	175	Kisu then withdrew with some two hundred warriors, loyal to him, to continue the fight against Bila Huruma".	10
16	181	Bila Huruma, unfortunately, I fear, is neither weak nor humane".	10
16	197	"Do not underestimate the efficiency of the askaris of Bila Huruma," said Ayari.	10
16	206	It would then, swiftly, station to station, be transmitted back to the grass palace of Bila Huruma.	10
17	3	They fled away, their bare feet pattering on the woven mats of my quarters, within that gigantic compound that constituted the palace of Bila Huruma.	10
17	6	"Those gifts, too," he said, "will appear seemly from one interested in negotiating a commercial treaty with one of the stature of Bila Huruma".	10
17	13	"He signed the notes over to Bila Huruma, and it was agents of the Ubar himself, who cashed them".	10
17	17	Our money, that which we paid for the ring, is being used to outfit an expedition for the exploration of the Ua!" "That is a venture," I said, "surely of interest to both a geographer, such as Shaba, and a Ubar, such as Bila Huruma".	10
17	28	"It seems," I said, "that Bila Huruma does not take you into his full confidence".	10
17	35	"He is here, the bold rascal," said Msaliti, "in this very palace, living openly, protected by Bila Huruma".	10
17	39	"Bila Huruma, this very morning," said he, "holds court.	10
17	48	"But what do you have further in mind?" "Shaba, as one close to Bila Huruma, will be present in the court," he said.	10
17	53	"Bila Huruma will not connect my attack with you in any way?" I asked.	10
18	1	What Occurred When Court Was Held in the Palace of Grass; I Meet Bila Huruma; A New Plan Must be Formed "Do you have the dagger?" whispered Msaliti to me.	10
18	13	The opulence and color of the court of Bila Huruma was quite impressive.	10
18	19	One of the difficulties in the ubarate of Bila Huruma was this sort of racial and tribal heterogeneity.	10
18	21	This heterogeneity was surely a challenge to the ubarate of Bila Huruma and that his government was as stable as it was said as much, I think, for the intelligence of his governance as for the ruthlessness of his policies and the indomitability of his will.	10
18	22	When I entered the court Bila Huruma had just finished accepting the reports of his officers on the battle with the forces of Kisu.	10
18	24	Kisu, with his small handful of men, as it turned out, incredibly enough, had been marching on Bila Huruma.	10
18	29	Once Bila Huruma lifted his hand and said, "Good".	10
18	30	The soldier then commended would then, I think, rather have died than betray Bila Huruma.	10
18	38	Why does the nibbling urt chatter and laugh at the larl? Is it because he himself is not a larl, or is it because he fears its paw? I looked up at the high, conical ceiling, of interwoven branches and grass, of the court of Bila Huruma.	10
18	44	Bila Huruma was then hearing cases at law, selected for his attention.	10
18	63	I could see Shaba in the group of people near Bila Huruma.	10
18	70	"No one who wants to work in my ubarate," said Bila Huruma, "will go hungry".	10
18	73	Bila Huruma, I conjectured, was not one to be patient with laggards.	10
18	79	That his fingers be removed was accounted mercy on the part of Bila Huruma, that he be able to cling less long to the pole and his miseries be the sooner terminated.	10
18	80	He had slain not one of the domain of Bila Huruma but one of Schendi.	10
18	88	"Yes," had said Bila Huruma.	10
18	96	He had performed upon himself the justice of Bila Huruma.	10
18	97	The next to appear before Bila Huruma were two members of the nobility, a man and his companion.	10
18	99	By one word and a stroke of his hand between them Bila Huruma dissolved their companionship.	10
18	104	Kisu, the rebel, in chains, was then dragged before Bila Huruma.	10
18	106	He was sentenced to the canal, to be put upon the rogues' chain, that he might now, at last, well serve his sovereign, Bila Huruma.	10
18	108	Next to approach Bila Huruma was Mwoga, ambassador of the villages of Ukungu, representative of the high chief, Aibu, who had organized the chiefs of Ukungu against Kisu, and deposed him.	10
18	109	He presented gifts, skins and feathers, and brass rings and the teeth of tharlarion, to Bila Huruma, and swore to him the fealty of the Ukungu villages.	10
18	110	Too, to seal the bonds of these political bargains, he, on behalf of Aibu, offered to Bila Huruma the very daughter of the high chief, Aibu, himself, a girl named Tende, as one of his companions.	10
18	111	"Is she beautiful?" asked Bila Huruma.	10
18	113	Bila Huruma shrugged.	10
18	121	"Yes," said Bila Huruma.	10
18	124	"Too bad she is not a slave," said Bila Huruma.	10
18	127	"She is the daughter of the traitor, Aibu!" Bila Huruma lifted his hand.	10
18	133	Bila Huruma and those about him, including Shaba, regarded me.	10
18	137	Such a trinket, doubtless, would be of great interest to the Ubar, Bila Huruma.	10
18	139	When I was near Bila Huruma I was to draw the dagger, slay Shaba and then, by prearranged plan, be immediately apprehended by askari guardsmen, to be placed under arrest.	10
18	147	I showed the sleeve sheath to Bila Huruma, who was interested in it.	10
18	149	Bila Huruma said something to an aide.	10
18	157	Msaliti did his best, not happily, to translate this for Bila Huruma.	10
18	159	First I thought it possible that some of the blacks in the room, besides Shaba and Msaliti, perhaps close counselors of Bila Huruma, might know Gorean.	10
18	166	Msaliti then signaled to a man who brought forward the gifts for Bila Huruma, in the small coffer.	10
18	171	He presented to Bila Huruma four chests of gold, and ten black slave girls, nude, in golden chains.	10
18	175	Shortly after the business with the envoy of Bazi the court of Bila Huruma was adjourned.	10
18	211	Bila Huruma's wazir of trade will doubtless soon detect that I know little of the merchants or affairs of Teletus.	10
18	245	"Bila Huruma," he said, "is the one who truly stands in the way of obtaining the ring.	10
18	247	If Bila Huruma were gone, it would be easy to arrest Shaba and secure the ring".	10
18	258	Bila Huruma, indeed, had been an extremely large man, and long armed.	10
18	271	It made clear that he, the Ubar, Bila Huruma himself, was one of them, himself an askari.	10
18	288	Perhaps it was just as well not to have looked too deeply into the eyes of Bila Huruma.	10
19	49	In the center of the room, on a high platform, some nine feet high, supported by eight poles, sitting, cross-legged, naked, save for the panther teeth about his neck, was not Shaba, but the ubar, Bila Huruma.	10
19	77	"Are you all right?" "Yes," said Bila Huruma.	10
19	84	Msaliti looked into the shallow pit below the high poles of the sleeping platform of Bila Huruma.	10
19	90	"He tried to kill me," said Bila Huruma.	10
19	98	I recalled then that Msaliti, in the morning, had told me that Bila Huruma was he who stood in the way of obtaining the ring, and that if he were gone it would be easy to arrest Shaba and secure the ring.	10
19	100	Bila Huruma was to be slain by Jambia, who would then escape, presumably by cutting through the grass wall.	10
19	104	If the plan had been successful Bila Huruma would have been dead and Shaba, without his protector, would be much at the mercy of Msaliti who, as high wazir, would immediately assume, at least temporarily, the reins of government.	10
19	116	"No," said Bila Huruma.	10
19	118	"Do you speak the Ushindi speech?" asked Bila Huruma of me.	10
19	124	"Who hired you?" asked Bila Huruma.	10
19	127	One by one, slowly, almost tenderly, on their strings, Bila Huruma lifted the tiny osts from the floor of the pit and placed them, one by one, in the basket near the foot of the sleeping platform.	10
19	133	Bila Huruma extended his arm.	10
19	148	"Perhaps," said Bila Huruma.	10
19	150	"Is Jambia, who was my guard, known to you?" asked Bila Huruma.	10
19	152	"Why did you wish to kill me?" asked Bila Huruma.	10
19	156	"Ah," said Bila Huruma.	10
19	159	Bila Huruma took the tiny snake and then, carefully, placed it in the hanging basket.	10
19	181	I turned about, dragging them with me, to again face Bila Huruma.	10
19	183	I then, truly, for the first time looked into the eyes of Bila Huruma.	10
19	201	Then I was conducted from the chamber of Bila Huruma, his gift, a necklace of gold, about my neck.	10
20	5	"It was a gift from Bila Huruma," I said.	10
20	19	They are gifts from Bila Huruma to Tende, daughter of the high chieftain, Aibu, of the Ukungu villages, serving slaves.	10
20	65	Certainly both had been promptly vended, Sasi to Filimbi, whom I had heard of, the owner of a paga tavern, and the blond-haired barbarian directly or indirectly to an agent of Bila Huruma, quite possibly with the immediate object in mind of being used as a component in a matched set of girls, white ...	10
20	68	This made good sense, of course, and made clear the generosity of the Ubar, Bila Huruma.	10
20	92	Actually Aibu would become a district administrator, as high chieftain of Ukungu, under the sovereignty of Bila Huruma.	10
20	104	"Tell him," said I, "that Bila Huruma, his own Ubar, speaks to commoners.	10
20	115	Yet where shall the lines be drawn between them? "Tell him," I said, "that he would do well to take lessons in leadership from a truly great leader, Bila Huruma".	10
20	133	It was little wonder that he and his forces had been defeated by the askaris of Bila Huruma.	10
22	4	There had been three vessels, of the sort which had been prepared in Ianda and brought to Schendi, and then to Lake Ushindi by way of the Nyoka, part of the fleet which Bila Huruma was organizing to support the explorations of Shaba, navigating the Ua, into the far interior.	10
23	23	They were among the gifts which Bila Huruma had sent ahead to his projected companion, Tende.	10
23	35	On the raft, near Tende and her two lovely, bare-breasted white slaves, stood four askaris, men of Bila Huruma, in their skins and feathers, with golden armlets.	10
23	41	I recognized him, having seen him earlier in the palace of Bila Huruma.	10
23	47	I had little doubt but what these garments had been gifts to him from the court of Bila Huruma.	10
23	48	Bila Huruma himself, of course, in spite of the cosmopolitan nature of his court, usually wore the skins, and the gold and feathers, of the askari.	10
23	56	Now, on a rogues' chain, he digs in the mud for your future companion, the great Bila Huruma".	10
23	96	"Bila Huruma is a tyrant," he said.	10
23	121	"Go, serve your master, Bila Huruma," said Kisu.	10
23	124	"And take these slave girls with you, gifts for his highness, Bila Huruma," said Kisu, gesturing to Tende and her two servitors.	10
23	125	"Lady Tende, daughter of Aibu, high chief of Ukungu," said Mwoga, "is being conveyed in honor to the ceremony of companionship, to be mated to his majesty, Bila Huruma".	10
23	128	"Of her own free will," said Mwoga, "the Lady Tende hastens to become Ubara to Bila Huruma".	10
23	135	"I have seen Bila Huruma," said Kisu.	10
23	138	Bila Huruma has his pick of hot-blooded, trained, enslaved beauties.	10
23	183	"You have learned, then," I said, "from Bila Huruma, who will speak to all men".	10
23	190	"Can you understand me?" he asked, speaking in the dialect of the court of Bila Huruma.	10
23	196	I had little doubt but what, between his Gorean and my understanding of the Ushindi dialect spoken at the court of Bila Huruma, we could communicate.	10
23	198	"That, at least, is not the language of Bila Huruma".	10
24	30	"And if we are seen we may fall to hostile natives or, if they be allies of Bila Huruma, be taken, or our position indicated by the drums".	10
24	106	"Bila Huruma will burn their villages," said Kisu.	10
24	111	Indeed, I had no doubt but what Bila Huruma would design a sober and judicious course, gentle, if necessary, harsh, if necessary, to bring about those ends which he might seek.	10
25	22	It was now claimed as a part of the expanding empire of Bila Huruma.	10
27	21	"You have the golden chain, given to you by Bila Huruma," he said.	10
27	103	We had retained the golden chain which I wore, which had been a gift of Bila Huruma.	10
27	150	This was she who had, with the blond-haired barbarian, been purchased as one of the matched set of serving slaves which Bila Huruma had given to Tende, among her other companionship gifts.	10
33	33	"It is Bila Huruma!" shouted Kisu in triumph.	10
33	43	"I could not in battle beat Bila Huruma," said Kisu.	10
33	48	"Thus," said Kisu, "in destroying Bila Huruma, I will destroy the empire".	10
33	51	"Do you truly think that Bila Huruma," I asked, "who owns or is companion to perhaps hundreds of women would pursue you into the jungle at great risk to himself and his empire to get back one girl, a girl whom he doubtless realizes has by now been reduced to slavery, and has thus been rendered polit...	10
33	53	"It might be a matter of principle for you," I said, "but I doubt that it would be a matter of principle for Bila Huruma.	10
33	55	For a man such as Bila Huruma I conjecture that the principle of preserving his empire would take precedence over matters of minor personal concern".	10
33	56	"But Bila Huruma is on the river," said Kisu.	10
33	74	From its surface we could see downriver, and, pasangs back, the flotilla of canoes and galleys of the Ubar, Bila Huruma.	10
33	79	"Bila Huruma!" called Kisu.	10
33	81	"This is the woman, Tende, who was to have been your companion! I took her from you! I made her my slave!" Bila Huruma, of course, if he were with the flotilla, as we conjectured, could not have heard Kisu.	10
33	89	I had never seen glasses of the builders in the palace of Bila Huruma.	10
33	136	Tende then, obedient to her master's command, as Kisu clapped his hands and sang, danced on a flat rock in the Ua river, danced before Bila Huruma, so far away, her master's enemy, from whom she had been stolen.	10
33	169	"Bila Huruma is now behind us," he said.	10
33	191	"Follow me, Bila Huruma!" he cried.	10
33	192	"Follow me, Bila Huruma, if you dare!" His voice was almost indistinguishable against the roar of the waters.	10
34	100	It had been this morning, shortly before noon, that we had surmounted the height of the falls, that almost on the summit of which Kisu, in the face of the distant, oncoming forces of Bila Huruma, had danced a naked slave, she to whom he at his pleasure had given the name 'Tende'.	10
35	5	It had been a week since we had first, on the height of the falls, seen the flotilla of Bila Huruma pasangs behind us.	10
42	4	We had now been on the river four months since we had, first, on the looming height of the falls, observed the many ships and canoes of the forces of Bila Huruma far behind us.	10
46	49	I had thought that it would be only a matter of time until the peoples of the river would mass in an attempt to stop the advance of Bila Huruma.	10
49	114	"Well, Kisu," said I, "it seems you have lured Bila Huruma to his destruction.	10
50	6	Two weeks ago we had come to another high falls, even higher than that from which we had, long ago, caught sight of the following forces of Bila Huruma, pasangs behind in the distance.	10
51	1	Bila Huruma "Like this?" asked the blond girl of Janice.	10
51	153	He had not tied her at night since we had seen the forces of the river peoples pass the island on which we had hidden, those forces of incredible numbers which had doubtless wiped out Bila Huruma, his flotilla and his battalions of askaris.	10
51	228	"Bila Huruma!" cried Kisu.	10
52	1	The Scribe Tende fled from the feet of Kisu, running to Bila Huruma.	10
52	4	"Do not hurt them! Do not kill them! I will come willingly with you! You have found me! Please, I beg of you to let the others go! Let them be free, great Ubar!" "Who is this woman?" asked Bila Huruma.	10
52	6	Tende looked up at Bila Huruma, stunned.	10
52	8	"Was it not for me that you journeyed upon the river?" "Where is Shaba?" asked Bila Huruma.	10
52	11	"Who is this?" asked Bila Huruma.	10
52	14	Bila Huruma looked down at the half-naked slave suppliant at his feet.	10
52	23	"Ukungu is part of the empire," said Bila Huruma.	10
52	25	Bila Huruma paid Kisu no attention.	10
52	27	"A lovely slave gift," said Bila Huruma, "a lovely token of esteem and good will, but scarcely sufficient to consolidate a matter as weighty as a political alliance".	10
52	30	"Companioned?" inquired Bila Huruma.	10
52	32	"This exquisite slut was once a free woman?" asked Bila Huruma.	10
52	34	"Is that true, my dear?" asked Bila Huruma.	10
52	39	"Did you once wear the regalia of the free woman?" asked Bila Huruma.	10
52	64	Bila Huruma smiled.	10
52	67	"Excellent," said Bila Huruma.	10
52	75	"I have many slaves," said Bila Huruma, "and many of them are more beautiful than you.	10
52	78	"Now crawl back to your master," said Bila Huruma.	10
52	80	There were some two hundred askaris in the room, and Msaliti, and Bila Huruma.	10
52	88	"Let us fight!" called Kisu to Bila Huruma.	10
52	91	"I fought my way through," said Bila Huruma.	10
52	96	"Who is that fellow?" asked Bila Huruma.	10
52	101	"Ah, yes, I recall," said Bila Huruma.	10
52	105	"Prepare to do battle," said Kisu to Bila Huruma.	10
52	106	"Our war is done, and you have lost," said Bila Huruma.	10
52	109	"Do battle with me singly, if you dare," called Kisu to Bila Huruma.	10
52	114	"Appoint me again Mfalme of Ukungu," said Kisu to Bila Huruma, "if you find that necessary".	10
52	116	"What sign have you seen of Shaba?" inquired Bila Huruma.	10
52	119	"I do not think he is far," said Bila Huruma.	10
52	121	"Where is the golden chain I gave you in my chambers?" asked Bila Huruma.	10
52	125	"I thought I would find you here," said Bila Huruma.	10
52	130	"I seek Shaba," said Bila Huruma.	10
52	133	"I could be behind the guard of that clumsy weapon in a moment," said Bila Huruma to Kisu.	10
52	138	"Do you know their techniques," asked Bila Huruma, "their utilities and tricks, the subtleties of their play?" "No," said Kisu.	10
52	139	"But I will fight you anyway!" "You are a strong man, and a good and brave man, Kisu," I said, "but Bila Huruma and his men are trained fighters.	10
52	141	"If I slay Bila Huruma," said Kisu, "I slay the empire".	10
52	145	"I do not choose to meet you in battle," said Bila Huruma.	10
52	161	"Why do you seek Shaba?" asked Bila Huruma.	10
52	163	Msaliti twitched nervously at the side of Bila Huruma.	10
52	170	Bila Huruma looked at me.	10
52	172	"Bila Huruma," we heard.	10
52	176	"I am Bila Huruma," said the Ubar.	10
53	8	Bila Huruma and I had followed the scribe most closely.	10
53	19	While the rest of our two parties, including Bila Huruma, had waited within the threshold, I was conducted across the broad stone court to its center, where, on a huge stone couch, of ancient design, lay Shaba.	10
53	150	"Why did you flee the palace of Bila Huruma?" I asked.	10
53	152	Bila Huruma, with the balance of his ships and supplies, had followed him.	10
53	155	"Bila Huruma, my patron and protector," said Shaba, "stood between Msaliti and myself.	10
53	158	"As long as I remained in the palace, Bila Huruma was in danger," he said.	10
53	160	Yet I knew well that when I fled Bila Huruma would follow me".	10
53	163	"I do not think Bila Huruma has followed me for the ring," smiled Shaba.	10
53	169	"How is it," I asked, "that you fear you may have wronged Bila Huruma?" That seemed as unlikely to me as a fellow worrying about wronging a larl who was padding along upon his trail.	10
53	191	Bila Huruma swiftly deployed his askaris.	10
53	291	Then each, Kisu, the rebel, and Bila Huruma, Ubar of the equatorial empire, side by side, addressed themselves to thwarting the attack of new Kurii.	10
53	318	Bila Huruma was screaming at his men.	10
53	332	I saw Bila Huruma slip to one knee.	10
53	334	Then, from behind Bila Huruma, there was a wild cry of Ukungu, and a raider's spear, in its length, thrust past the Ubar and buried itself in a red wound in the Kur's heart.	10
53	335	"My thanks, Rebel," said Bila Huruma, regaining his feet.	10
53	338	"True," said Bila Huruma, and then again, side by side, rebel and Ubar, they fought.	10
53	345	Bila Huruma now gathered his men about him.	10
53	377	The golden chain I had received from Bila Huruma, which he had returned to me, retrieving it from our raiders' canoe, was covered with blood.	10
53	416	I heard Bila Huruma rallying his men by the wall.	10
53	418	But, in moments, viciously, Bila Huruma, Kisu, Turgus, Ayari and the askaris had been forced back again.	10
53	426	Bila Huruma, then, breathing heavily, raised his stabbing spear in his dark and bloody fist.	10
53	431	The words Bila Huruma had uttered were of course in the native tongue of Ushindi.	10
53	461	Bila Huruma, too, interposed himself between me and our shaggy adversaries.	10
53	463	"No!" cried Bila Huruma.	10
53	479	Bila Huruma hurried to the side of Shaba.	10
53	504	Bila Huruma then stood beside me, on the level near the moat.	10
53	508	Bila Huruma looked down at Msaliti sadly.	10
54	1	We will Leave the Ancient City "I have examined the maps and notebooks," I said to Bila Huruma.	10
54	8	Shaba's galley, and the three galleys and canoes of Bila Huruma, and our raiders' canoe, which had served us so long and faithfully, could be seen far below us, where they were moored at the landing.	10
54	11	Bila Huruma himself, with his own hands, had cast the ashes of Shaba high into the air where the wind would catch them and carry them over the city, and to the jungles beyond.	10
54	13	"This lake, forming the source of the Ua," I said, "he named Lake Bila Huruma".	10
54	14	"Cross that out," said Bila Huruma.	10
54	17	For a time Bila Huruma and I watched the galleys and canoes being readied for casting off.	10
54	20	Of his forces Bila Huruma retained some ninety askaris.	10
54	22	"I am a lonely man," said Bila Huruma.	10
54	25	Bila Huruma looked at me, puzzled.	10
54	41	"I was also his friend," said Bila Huruma.	10
54	45	Bila Huruma smiled.	10
54	55	"Did he not inform you of something of great value which lay in the possession of Shaba?" "No," said Bila Huruma.	10
54	60	"Yes," said Bila Huruma.	10
54	64	"Why did he not expect to survive?" asked Bila Huruma.	10
54	66	"The beasts, surely," said Bila Huruma.	10
54	68	"And you, too," said Bila Huruma.	10
54	72	"It must be very precious," said Bila Huruma.	10
54	80	"Of this he spoke to me before he died," said Bila Huruma.	10
54	88	"Very well," said Bila Huruma.	10
54	91	"We were both tricked," said Bila Huruma.	10
54	101	"I shall miss him sorely," said Bila Huruma.	10
54	103	"He was true to his caste," said Bila Huruma.	10
54	105	Bila Huruma turned away and looked back at the ruins of the huge building, at the great stone statues, worn and covered with vines, and at the city, lost and forgotten, lying to the east.	10
54	114	"Yes," said Bila Huruma, looking down then at the galleys and canoes.	10
54	118	"I think," said Bila Huruma, "it is better to build than it is to destroy".	10
54	120	"Yes," said Bila Huruma.	10
54	126	"He was true to his caste," said Bila Huruma.	10
54	128	"Wait," said Bila Huruma.	10
54	137	"Shaba," said Bila Huruma, "asked me to extend to you his thanks and apologies.	10
54	141	"His apologies?" "He took the ring on loan, so to speak," said Bila Huruma.	10
54	145	"It was his intention to return it himself," said Bila Huruma, "but the attack of the beasts, so sudden and unexpected, intervened".	10
54	148	"A ring of great power," said Bila Huruma, "one which can cast upon its wearer a mantle of invisibility".	10
54	150	"Perhaps," smiled Bila Huruma.	10
54	152	"It was the wish of Shaba," said Bila Huruma.	10
54	154	"I am a Ubar," said Bila Huruma.	10
54	158	"Of course," said Bila Huruma.	10
55	18	"What is its meaning?" asked Bila Huruma.	10
55	22	"Let us proceed," said Bila Huruma.	10
55	25	I tied the Tahari ring about my neck, where it hung, with the golden chain of Bila Huruma, on my chest.	10
56	24	"You fight well," said Bila Huruma.	10
56	29	"Once, Kisu," said Bila Huruma, "you were little more than a kailiauk, with the obstinacy and crudity of the kailiauk's power, quick to anger, thoughtless in your charges.	10
56	32	"Proceed with us further to Ushindi," said Bila Huruma.	10
56	36	"You are first in Ukungu," said Bila Huruma, naming Kisu to power.	10
56	38	"Why?" asked Bila Huruma.	10
56	40	Bila Huruma smiled.	10
56	43	"Clean now the blade of your spear, Kisu," said Bila Huruma.	10
56	49	He and Bila Huruma embraced.	10
57	40	When I had returned to Schendi I had borne with me notes from the court of Bila Huruma.	10
57	45	In it, with my other things, was a chain of gold, which I had received, long ago, from Bila Huruma.	10
57	48	I thought of Bila Huruma, and the loneliness of the Ubar.	10
57	49	I thought of Shaba, and his voyages of exploration, the circumnavigation of Lake Ushindi, the discovery and circumnavigation of Lake Ngao, and the discovery and exploration of the Ua, even to the discovery of its source in the placid waters of that vast lake he had called Lake Bila Huruma.	10
57	50	But by the wish of Bila Huruma I had changed its name to Lake Shaba.	10
57	59	The first copies that were made by anyone had already, however, been made, by the scribes of Bila Huruma in Ushindi.	10
57	61	"Will you continue work on the canal?" I had asked Bila Huruma.	10
57	69	The importance of the work of Bila Huruma and Shaba, one a Ubar, the other a scribe and explorer, could not, in my opinion, be overestimated.	10
57	71	He wore now the robes of the wazir of Bila Huruma.	10
57	72	It was a wise choice, I thought, on the part of Bila Huruma.	10
57	79	He would doubtless figure prominently in the long-range programs and plans of Bila Huruma.	10
57	84	To this day, as one may see upon the map, the land of Ukungu stands as a sovereign free state within the perimeters of the empire of Bila Huruma.	10
57	85	Before Bila Huruma had left the village of Nyundo, central village of the Ukungu villages, he had spoken to Kisu.	10
57	89	"Is it your intention to free her?" asked Bila Huruma.	10
57	91	"Excellent," had said Bila Huruma.	10
57	123	'The river must be made safe," had said Bila Huruma, when the right ankle of the fetch-and-carry girl, the last girl to be chained, had been snapped in its shackle, fastening her by chain and body about the run-chain.	10
57	315	"It is less dangerous now for an outlander to remain in Schendi," I said, "since Ayari became wazir to Bila Huruma".	10
57	317	No longer now did Bila Huruma demand men from Schendi for the canal.	10
57	318	This alteration in policy in itself had inaugurated a new era and climate in the relations between Schendi and the empire of Bila Huruma.	10
57	319	I had little doubt but what Ayari had clarified to Bila Huruma the value of the friendship and facilities of the men of Schendi.	10