But Hal knew from hisfather that no civilized man had ever travelled into that awesomeinterior and wondered, as he had so many times before, what it would belike to be the first to venture there. Mycapture might be construed as an act of piracy. Hereached for it, but Aboli checked him. Llewellyn relaxed slightly, they alldrank the toast and sat down again in a hubbub of laughter and talk.
The carpentersreplaced the timbers that had been shot away, and the sail makers resewed the torn sails. Beyond them the nobles of the tribe filled every space and lined thetop of the wall of granite blocks that surrounded the citadel. The Governor screamed shrilly and collapsed onthe deck. Sir Francis looked delighted: God wassmiling upon them.
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