extending from Anoroc upon the east to Sari upon the west, and from

the river south of the Mountains of the Clouds north to Amoz. As

soon as I had explained it to him he drew a line with his finger,

showing a sea-coast far to the west and south of Sari, and a great

circle which he said marked the extent of the Land of Awful Shadow

in which lay Thuria.

The shadow extended southeast of the coast out into the sea half-way

to a large island, which he said was the seat of Hooja's traitorous

government. The island itself lay in the light of the noonday sun.

Northwest of the coast and embracing a part of Thuria lay the Lidi

Plains, upon the northwestern verge of which was situ-ated the

Mahar city which took such heavy toll of the Thurians.

Thus were the unhappy people now between two fires, with Hooja upon

one side and the Mahars upon the other. I did not wonder that they

sent out an appeal for succor.

Though Ghak and Kolk both attempted to dissuade me, I was determined

to set out at once, nor did I delay longer than to make a copy of

my map to be given to Perry that he might add to his that which

I had set down since we parted. I left a letter for him as well,

in which among other things I advanced the theory that the Sojar

Az, or Great Sea, which Kolk mentioned as stretching eastward

from Thuria, might indeed be the same mighty ocean as that which,

swinging around the southern end of a continent ran northward along

the shore opposite Phutra, mingling its waters with the huge gulf

upon which lay Sari, Amoz, and Greenwich.

Against this possibility I urged him to hasten the building of

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