"We thought of Soumiossi."
"So we set fire to them; now they're blazing brightly."
"What a pity! what a pity!" said Raiden; "our fine boats! What shall we do?"
"Silence!" said the Prince; "let us try to get away."
"I'm afraid it won't be so easy as to enter."
They saw that they were free to roam about the camp, no one heeding them; and they moved off in search of an outlet.
"Kioto attacked, and I am here!" said the Prince, a prey to strange agitation. "Our fleet is destroyed. I need two hundred horses; where am I to get them?"
"There are plenty of them here," said Raiden; "but how are we to get hold of them?"
"We will come back with our comrades," said the Prince; "see how the horses are fastened."
"Merely by the bridle to the trunk of a tree."