Leaving the Doomed City 
before in which the allies had been pressed back 
slowly to the last line, showing that they were 
barely able to hold their own. We feared that, 
encouraged by this show of weakness, the enemy 
might send a large detachment of their vast 
horde to attack our caravan. About noon, we 
came to a place where a road from Ebaddan 
entered our way, and the officer warned us all 
not to speak while passing that place. For 
about thirty minutes, we hardly breathed. After 
going a mile or two farther, we met one of the 
scouts from the camp at Okee-Magee, who told 
us that the way was certainly safe to that place, 
but we were still in the enemy’s country and 1 
could not feel wholly out of danger. 
Late in the afternoon, we came in sight of the 
camp of Okee-Magee. Wrapped in mantles 
of azure, with their faces illumined by the 
departing sun, the twin sisters seemed to 
greet us with a welcoming smile. I tasted 
again the cup of happiness of which I so freely 
drank when, after passing the outposts of 
Awyaw, I came in sight of Ejahyay. The 
mountains were still a long distance away, but 
our buoyant spirits annihilated space. 
Just as the sun set and when we were still 
several miles away from the camp, I heard the 
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