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commenced our journey towards the capital This was slow at first; but,

as the strength and spirits of the prisoners returned, it became more

rapid; and in three days we reached the palace of the king As we

entered the city gates, with the huge bulks lying each on a waggon drawn

by horses, and two of them inextricably intertwined with the dead bodies

of their princes, the people raised a shout and then a cry, and followed

in multitudes the solemn procession

I will not atte Joy

and pride in his sons overcame his sorrow at their loss On me he heaped

every kindness that heart could devise or hand execute He used to sit

and questionthat was in any

way connected with them and their preparations Ourthe tiether, was a

constant theme He entered into the minutest details of the construction

of the ar so interest This ar,

as ht he took

in conte it, and the consolation it appeared to afford him in

his sorrow, I could not ask for it; but, at his request, left my own,

weapons and all, to be joined with theirs in a trophy, erected in the

grand square of the palace The king, with gorgeous cereht with his own old hand, in which trembled the sword of his youth