Lo! it seemed to me as though one were calling me back from the depths
of sleep. With trouble I opened my eyes only to shut them again because
of the glare of the light. Then after a while I sat up, which gave me
pain, for I felt as if I had been beaten all over, and looked once more.
Above me shone the sun in a sky of deepest blue; before me was the sea
almost calm, while around were rocks and sand, among which crawled great
reptiles that I knew for turtles, as I had seen many of them in our
wanderings. Moreover, kneeling at my side, with the sword that he had
taken from the body of Deleroy still strapped about him, was Kari,
who bled from some wound and was almost white with encrusted salt, but
otherwise seemed unharmed. I stared at him, unable to open my mouth from
amazement, so it was he who spoke the first, saying, in a voice that had
a note of triumph in it: