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+>TM 4\r
+>LS 2\r
+>PS ON\r
+>PL66\r
+>SM6\r
+>CP ON\r
+>FO OFF\r
+>------L-----------------------!----------------------------R\r
+ \ 5ä262\ 5ä \r
+\r
+ Tolshi the helmsman climbs out of the hatchway to the \r\8a stern hold and he hurries over to the Captain's side. \r\8a He reports that the ship is holed below the waterline, \r\8a close to the rudder, and that she is fast taking on \r\8a water. Jenkshi inspects the damage for himself and \r\8a immediately sets his crew to work at patching up the \r\8a damage. They do their best with the materials \r\8a available but still \ 5éThe Azam\ 5é continues to take on \r\8a water. Jenkshi estimates that the ship will stay \r\8a afloat no more than three hours unless proper repairs \r\8a are carried out, and he orders Tolshi to set a course \r\8a for Dlash-da Ralzuha - the nearest port. \r
+ \r
+ You voice your fear that Shadakine pirates may already \r\8a occupy this port, but Jenkshi laughs when he hears \r\8a this.\r
+ "If you knew Dlash-da Ralzuha like I do, you'd know we \r\8a have no cause to worry about running foul of any \r\8a buccaneers there. It's a slum port. A rubbish dump.\r
+ It's name means 'Junkyard of the Ralzuha' and it \r\8a certainly lives up to its name."\r
+\r
+ Your first glimpse of Dlash-da Ralzuha confirms \r\8a everything Jenkshi has said about it. Its rust-red \r\8a hovels and stinking shacks are grouped haphazardly \r\8a around the rim of a natural stone harbour formed by a \r\8a semi-circle of black volcanic rocks. Flocks of vultures \r\8a hover in the skies, swooping to feed occasionally on \r\8a rafts of rotting debris which litter the shoreline. \r
+ \r
+ It is late in the afternoon and \ 5éThe Azan\ 5é is listing \r\8a alarmingly to starboard when at last she enters the \r\8a stench-filled harbour of Dlash-da Ralzuha. It seems \r\8a that the whole population of this derelict little port \r\8a turns out to greet your arrival. For the natives it is \r\8a something of a special occasion, for so rarely do \r\8a ships ever visit their squalid harbour.\r
+\r
+ Despite their wretched living conditions, the poverty-\r\8a stricken tribal natives of Dlash-da Ralzuha give \ 5éThe \r\8a Azan\ 5é a warm welcome, and they seem genuinely eager to \r\8a help Jenkshi and his crew with the repair of the \r\8a ship's hull. Grooja, the port's oldest man and tribal \r\8a leader, provides Jenkshi with fifty native men to help \r\8a with the unloading of the cargo in order that the \r\8a damaged section of the hull can be raised above the \r\8a waterline. The Captain sets them to work and he \r\8a estimates that adequate repairs could be made \r\8a overnight to enable the ship to sail on the first high \r\8a tide tomorrow. The crew are pleased to hear this news. \r\8a None of them want to stay in Dlash-da Ralzuha a minute \r\8a longer than is absolutely necessary. \r
+\r
+\r
+ Turn to \ 5â69\ 5â
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