Volume II Part 52 (1/2)

Now, thus, for the nonce, with good cheer, we close And after h shade; throughend of these wanderings wild--aled with a supper

CHAPTER LXXVIII They Eid word to Media that the day was very fine for yachting; but heone of the party, who thatdoubtless would depart his isle

”My co,” said Media to the chamberlains, ”and say the royal notice to quit was duly received”

”Take Azzageddi's also,” said Babbalanja; ”and say, I hope his Highness will not fail in his appointrave-yard corner;--there I'll be, and grin again!”

Sailing on, the next land as thickly wooded: hedged round about by h their boughs Here and there were shady nooks, half verdure and half water Fishes rippled, and canaries sung

”Let us break through, my lord,” said Yoo” ”Solitudes they are,” cried Mohi

”Peopled but not enlivened,” said Babbalanja ”Hard landing here, ed?”

”Why, break through, then,” said Media ”Yillah is not here”

”I hed Yoo woes: like ly Yet of the its outward brightness, but drea not of the sad secrets here embowered Haunt of the hopeless! In those inland woods brood Mardians who have tasted Mardi, and found it bitter--the draught so sweet to others!--maidens whose unimparted bloom has cankered in the bud; and children, with eyes averted fro blosso stor of the truth,” said Mohi

”Why land, then?” said Media ”No merry man of sense--no demi-God like me, will do it Let's away; let's see all that's pleasant, or that seems so, in our circuit, and, if possible, shun the sad”

”Then we have circled not the round reef wholly,” said Babbalanja, ”butthe first sad land, hted at your instance”

”No loom A chorus! there, ye paddlers! spread all your sails; ply paddles; breeze up, merry winds!”

And so, in the saffron sunset, we neared another shore

A gloos, rent by volcanic clefts; ploughed up ater-courses, and dusky with charred woods The beach was streith scoria and cinders; in dolorous soughs, a chill wind bleails issued fro strand

”Shall we land?” said Babbalanja

”Not here,” cried Yoomy; ”no Yillah here”

”No,” said Media ”This is another of those lands far better to avoid”

”Know ye not,” said Mohi, ”that here are thein their pits, so nigh approach the volcano's bowels, they hear its rus? 'Yet they must work on,'

cries Klanko, 'the ht above ground, mixed with the metal masses”

”Set all sail there, men! away!”

”My lord,” said Babbalanja; ”still ood; or evil so mixed therewith, the mixture's both?”

Half vailed in misty clouds, the harvest-ht, all sat silent; each hts