“You will get that and welcome,” said Cud.
“Come on board my ship,” said the eldest son of the King of Hadone: “we’ll make one company; your ship is not much to look at.”
“Of the food that our father gave us,” said Cud, “there is no bit dry, and we have plenty on board. If it is dry food that you have in that big ship, leave it and come to us.”
The sons of the King of Hadone went to the small ship, and let the big one go with the wind. When Cud saw that they let their own ship go, he made great friends of them.
“Have you been on sea ever before?” asked he of the eldest of the strangers.
“I am on sea since I was of an age to walk by myself,” replied he.
“This is my first voyage,” said Cud. “Now as we are brothers and friends, and as you are taking us to visit your kingdom, I’ll give you command of my ship.”
The king’s son took this from Cud willingly, and steered home in a straight course.
When the sons of the King of Hadone were leaving home, they commanded all in the kingdom, big and little, small and great, weak and strong, to be at the port before them when they came back with the sons of the King of Urhu. “These,” said they, “must never be let out alive on the shore.”
In the first harbor the ship entered, the shore was black and white with people.