FURTHER UP AND FURTHER IN "KNOW, O Warlike Kings," said Emeth, "and you, O ladies whose beauty illumihe universe, that I am Emeth the seventh son of Harpha Tarkaan of the city of Tehishbaaward beyond the desert. I came lately into Narnia with nine and twenty others uhe and of Rishda Tarkaan Now when I first heard that we should march upon Narnia I rejoiced; for I had heard many things of your Land and desired greatly to meet you in battle. But when I found that we were to go in disguised as merts (which is a shameful dress for a warrior and the son of a Tarkaan) and to work by lies and trickery, then my joy departed from me. And most of all when I found we must wait upon a Monkey, and when it began to be said that Tash and Aslan were ohen the world became dark in my eyes. For always since I was a boy I have served Tash and my great desire was to know more of him, if it might be, to look upon his face. But the name of Aslan was hateful to me.
"And, as you have seen, we were called together outside the straw-roofed hovel, night after night, and the fire was kindled, and the Ape brought forth out of the hovel something upon fs that I could not well see. And the people and the Beasts bowed down and did honour to it. But I thought, the Tarkaan is deceived by the Ape: for this thing that es out of the stable is her Tash nor any od. But when I watched the Tarkaans face, and marked every word that he said to the Mohen I ged my mind: for I saw that the Tarkaan did not believe in it himself. And then I uood that he did not believe in Tash at all: for if he had, how could he dare to mock him?
"When I uood this, a great rage fell upon me and I wohat the true Tash did not strike down both the Monkey and the Tarkaan with fire from heaven. heless I hid my anger and held my tongue and waited to see how it would end. But last night, as some of you know, the Monkey brought not forth the yellow thing but said that all who desired to look upon Tashlan - for so they mixed the two words to pretend that they were all one - must pass one by oo the hovel. And I said to myself, Doubtless this is some other deception. But whe had followed in and had e out again in a madness of terror, then I said to myself, Surely the true Tash, whom they called on without knowledge or belief, has now e among us, and will avenge himself. And though my heart was turned into water inside me because of the greatness and terror of Tash, yet my desire was strohan my fear, and I put force upon my ko stay them from trembling, and on my teeth that they should not chatter, and resolved to look upon the face of Tash though he should slay me. So I offered myself to go into the hovel; and the Tarkaan, though unwillingly, let me go.
"As soon as I had gone in at the door, the first wonder was that I found myself in this great sunlight (as we all are now) though the inside of the hovel had looked dark from outside. But I had no time to marvel at this, for immediately I was forced to fight for my head against one of our own men. As soon as I saw him I uood that the Monkey and the Tarkaan had set him there to slay any who came in if he were not in their secrets: so that this man also was a liar and a mocker and no true servant of Tash. I had the better will to fight him; and having slain the villain, I cast him out behihrough the door.
"Then I looked about me and saw the sky and the wide lands, and smelled the sweetness.
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