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There are tall, yellow flowers that are the size of trees. The architecture and the grove of trees have a classical appearance. The sky is pale blue. This was, of course, Meldilorn. He hears falling water and smells a very light sweet fragrance. They come to a path leading into the purple forest and he sees a gong and a mallet made of greenish-blue metal. Augray strikes the gong.

Ch. 17 Ransom sees a red cloud on the horizon. Augray tells him that sandstorms kick up in the northern desert. Sometimes they descend on the handramit and choke the hnau. Fortunately, that one heads into the desert. Sometimes Ransom asks to be put down so that he could walk and stretch his numb legs. In the valley he sees a sapphire lake, 12 miles in diameter. In the center is a red island, rising from the water.