A silver tray wasset at his elbow, loaded with small china bowls of appetizers andspiced savouries. and thrown into a smallcompartment, which must have been the carpenter's store. He led Hal towhere Aboli still waited and then both of them followed him throughanother maze of stairways and passages, then stopped before a doorwayguarded by four priests in robes and turbans. Masthead! he bellowed back.
Their faces brightened. In these last days since they had descended the escarpment they hadfound that the game upon these plains had little fear of man. Nazet wore no perfume, and it was a natural, warm, muskysmell that Hal found himself savouring deeply. What was the name of this Portuguese ship? She was the ElDragdo.
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