nted the platform, and as he tookthe oath placed one hand on the flashing yellow cairngorm in the hiltof his dagger. Most were simply dressed in the cast-off clothing of their owners,although some of the prettier women wore the flamboyant finery thatmarked them as the favourite playthings of their masters. Later the Omani Arabs, under their warrior king Ahmed El Grang theLeft-handed, had sailed in with their war dhows, attacked thePortuguese and had driven out their garrison with great slaughter. You are weary, he said.
Their boat, too, was loaded with water casks. Faintly he could hear the voices of the watering party fromthe Gull, and the squeaking of their oars as Cumbrae turned awayfrom the spice store, and nodded across the water at the hull of theResolution. There is some delay.
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