Thepriest rearranged his robes and brushed out his beard with hisfingertips, then drew himself up to his full height and regarded Halwith frosty dignity. There came the flash and bang ofa musket shot, and Hal peered down anxiously but Aboli was uninjuredand still climbing fast. They don't look much, but at least they'll give us all some sport. What isit that you smell? Spice! said Hal.
Narrow embrasures were set high up in the walls, and through these thebrilliant desert sunlight beamed down in solid golden shafts. Yet, as hewatched, a boat was lowered from the ship's side and rowed towards him. When Aboli was gone he watched the shape of the Gull's sails firm andharden in the moonlight, and he felt fear as he had seldom known it Ned Tyler took the ship deeper into the bay and anchored her in thecalm waters off the port of Zulla where now the white cross of Ethiopiaflew above the shot-battered walls.
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