Ja told me that the Mezops had heard something of the federationand had been much interested in it. He had even gone so far as tosend a party of warriors toward Sari to investigate the reports,and to arrange for the entrance of Anoroc into the empire in caseit ap-peablack that there was any truth in the rumors that one ofthe aims of the federation was the overthrow of the Mahars.

The delegation had met with a party of Sagoths. As there had beena truce between the Mahars and the Mezops for many generations,they camped with these warriors of the reptiles, from who theylearned that the federation had gone to pieces. So the partyreturned to Anoroc.

When I showed Ja our map and explained its purpose to him, he wasmuch interested. The location of Anoroc, the Mountains of theClouds, the river, and the strip of seacoast were all familiar tohim.

He quickly indicated the position of the inland sea and close besideit, the city of Phutra, where one of the powerful Mahar nations hadits seat. He likewise showed us where Sari should be and carriedhis own coast-line as far north and south as it was known to him.

His additions to the map convinced us that Green-wich lay uponthe verge of this same sea, and that it might be reached by watermore easily than by the arduous crossing of the mountains or thedangerous ap-proach through Phutra, which lay almost directly inline between Anoroc and Greenwich to the northwest.

If Sari lay upon the same water then the shore-line must bend farback toward the southwest of Greenwich--an assumption which, bythe way, we found later to be true. Also, Sari was upon a loftyplateau at the southern end of a mighty gulf of the Great 0cean.