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| 23 | 18 | I was View more quotes about permitted">permitted to speak directly to Hakimba, when I made it clear to my escort that I knew the identity of their true Ubar and that it was with him I must speak. |
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| 23 | 15 | Each people, as the Tuchuks had, had its false Ubar, its decoy to protect the true Ubar from danger or assassination. |
| 23 | 16 | But, Kamchak had assured me, Conrad, Hakimba and Tolnus were indeed the true Ubars of their peoples. |
| 23 | 17 | I was nearly slain by arrows when I dropped the tarn amidst the startled blacks of the Kataii, but my black jacket with the emblem of the four bosk horns, emblem of the Tuchuk courier, soon proved its worth and I was led to the dais of the Ubar of the Kataii. |
| 23 | 18 | I was permitted to speak directly to Hakimba, when I made it clear to my escort that I knew the identity of their true Ubar and that it was with him I must speak. |
| 23 | 19 | As I expected, Hakimba's brown eyes and richly scarred countenance showed little interest in my presentation of the plight of the Tuchuks. |
| 23 | 20 | It was little to him, apparently, that the Paravaci should raid the herds and wagons of the Tuchuks when most of the Tuchuk warriors were engaged in Turia. |
| 23 | 21 | He did not, on the other hand, approve of the fact that the raid had taken place during the Omen Year, which is a time of general truce among the Wagon Peoples. |