The Grand Cham

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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.

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