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"This Land of Dhrall is the native hoo," Gunda said "We'd better pick up our pace,a fair distance ahead of us, and if we don't keep up, he'll get very grouchy If we keep strolling along like this, he hed, and they both began to walk faster

The sun was setting off to the hen Longbow decided that they'd gone far enough Gunda breathed a sigh of relief at that point He was fairly sure that he didn't have another o a little farther tobow said

"Farther?" Gunda protested "I', much less walkaround when you're riding on boats, Gunda," Longbow replied "You'll be in much better shape e reach the head of the pass" Then he looked back down the pass where the last of the Trogites were stuht's camp "Did Narasan happen to tell you why he sent so s to bow All it does is confuse me"

"But ten thousand men to build one fort?"

"Thatabout"

They had beans for supper, of course, but Gunda was sure that he could eat aluards and then fell asleep albow had been quite obviously not at all pleased when Conated some ten thousand of his reed with the archer, but he chose not to h, the ht have sobow and found him still awake "I take it that you aren't too happy with the co that bow replied in a sour sort of voice

"There is soh," Andar said

"Oh?"

"About hoould you say that the upper end of this pass is?"

"I'd say fifty feet at the most"

"That would put almost two hundred men to work on every foot of our projected fort, wouldn't it?"