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Hettar shrugged "They all look the same to me"

"There's all the difference in the world," Barak said, sounding a bit injured "Hoould you feel if I said that all horses looked the sarinned at hi," he said

"Hoe let them knoe're here?" Durnik asked

"They know already," Barak said, "unless they're drunk Sailors alatch an unfriendly shore very carefully"

"Unfriendly?" Durnik asked

"Every shore is unfriendly when a Cherek war-boat coht," Barak answered "It's some kind of superstition, I think"

The ship came about and her anchor was raised Her oars cah the froth-topped combers toward the mouth of the river Barak led the way toward the riverbank, then rode along the broad flow until he found a spot deep enough so that the ship could be moored next to the shore

The fur-clad sailors who threw Barak aline looked familiar, and the first one who leaped across to the riverbank was Greldik, Barak's old friend

"You're a long ways south," Barak said as if they had only just parted

Greldik shrugged "I heard you needed a ship I wasn't doing anything, so I thought I'd come down and see what you were up to"

"Did you talk to ? No We made a run down from Kotu to the harbor at Tol Horb for so - you remember him - black beard, only one eye?"

Barak nodded

"He toldhiet along very well, so I offered to coreed?"

"No," Greldik replied, pulling at his beard "As a matter of fact, he told me to mindalas greedy, and Grinneg probably offered hirinned "Elteg didn't say how e his mind?"

"He had soht face

"What kind of trouble?"

"It seeht after he and his creere all drunk, some scoundrel slipped aboard and chopped down hishis head

"My thought exactly," Greldik agreed

"How did he take it?"

"Not very well, I'm afraid," Greldik said sadly "When ed out of the harbor, he sounded as if he was inventing profanities on the spot You could hear him for quite some distance"

"He should learn to control his teives Chereks a bad name in the ports of the world"