Nofuhl.
Reports are contradictory. According to one of their own writers of
the period they suffered no loss whatever in vessels. Yet at the same
time he asserts, "We gave them Haleklumbya," which must be the name of
a ship.

Khan-li.
A gallant fight! But can you explain how such an inferior people
could become heroic of a sudden?

Nofuhl.
According' to 'Ardfax, an early British historian, they were addicted
to surprising feats upon the water. And this statement is borne out by
a Spanish admiral, Offulbad-shoota, who maintains that the Mehrikans,
being a godless people, were aided by the devil.



2d July


We are on the river that leads to "Washington." Grip-til-lah says we
shall sight it to-morrow. The river is a dirty color.




3d July