The sun sank, and as it touched the earth it seemed to erupt in anexplosion of green and crimson light, then fall away to give the worldover to sudden night. The colt stood on planted hoofs and shivered withoutrage and frustration at being unable to rid himself of theunfamiliar weight. ut the Ainu language, and thatthey inhabited pits in winter, as do also the Ainu now living inSaghalien. The Mahdi was preceded by tales of miracles andprodigious omens.
The onlyliving creatures were a pair of black eagles who had their eyrie in thecliffs above the north bank of the river: they were curi She was sobbing with relief to find them safe,and for her own escape. TheMahdi has a hundred thousand men camped on the other side of the river. But though the pestilence was stayed, it brought an aftermathof lawlessness and produced much unrest in the regions remote fromYamato.
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