Chapter 78 LXXVIII Babbalanja Solus

Of the House of the Afternoon something yet remains to be said.

It was chiefly distinguished by its pavement, where, according to the strange customs of the isle, were inlaid the reputed skeletons of Donjalolo's sires; each surrounded by a mosaic of corals,-red, white, and black, intermixed with vitreous stones fallen from the skies in a meteori