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Harold Lamb. The Grand Cham
The Grand Cham
Table of Contents
I. THE GATE OF SHADOWS
II. THE RIVER OF DEATH
III. THE BLOW IN THE DARK
IV. MICHAEL IS ADMITTED
V. CATHAY
VI. THE VENTURE
VII. THE CASTLE WITHOUT DOORS
VIII. THE SITTING-DOWN BEAST
IX. THE RAVINE
X. THE TOPAZ RING
XI. THE THUNDERBOLT
XII. TAMERLANE DECIDES
XIII. THE CONQUEROR
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Harold Lamb
Published by Good Press, 2020
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A heavy guard of wakeful Mamelukes stood about the enclosure where Bayezid was quartered and other mounted sentries paced about the circuit of the fires around which warriors and slaves alike drank, sang and slept.
It was the first watch of the night when one of the Portuguese rose and tossed a double armful of dried tamarisk branches on the fire that had sunk to embers. A crackling blaze climbed skyward barely three paces inside the aul entrance.
