The Sugar-Cane Prison arrives: The Rats water it with Soy fluid to keep the canes growing as fast as the Prisoner breaks them down: The time for siesta draws on, and Smaly and Redy go into the house of the Historian 73 CHAPTER VII The Flying-Fish announces the hour of three, and the World falls asleep: The Hen makes six hard-boiled eggs: Smaly and Redy begin to read the manuscript of the Historian 82 CHAPTER VIII Redy and Smaly read of the childhood of the Prisoner 95 CHAPTER IX The elder Flying-Fish loses one eye, and the Hen finds it: The Historian wakes up, and Smaly and Redy run out of the house: The Healer mends the paw of the Confectioner 100 CHAPTER X The Wigs all imagine they suffer from headache: The Rats come to the Healer to be cured of the ravages of hot Soy: The Chief Contractor has to make himself ill eating the musical instruments 111 CHAPTER XI The young girls dance for the Rats, then play a curious game of tennis: They fail to understand Smaly's point of view 122 CHAPTER XII The Mother of the Crow tells of the life and death of Djorak in his own country 127 CHAPTER XIII Smaly and Redy are taken to see the Fleet: The Prisoner arrives and the Wigs fly in terror: Smaly and Redy at last have speech with the Prisoner 146 CHAPTER XIV The three daughters of the Prisoner are installed in their gardens 161 CHAPTER XV Smaly and Redy effect the rescue of the three young girls: Djorak joins them and they all partake of a delightful picnic: Smaly blows the Soy powder over the country of the Wigs: Then the six friends go home 170 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR _Facing page_ FRITILLA AND THE RED FLYING-FISH _Frontispiece_ THE CITY CURIOUS 16 THEY WERE KNOWN AS THE "WIGS" BECAUSE OF THEIR LARGE PERUKES 24 THESE CREATURES DID NOT RESEMBLE ANYTHING THAT REDY AND SMALY HAD SEEN UP TO THEN 32 LAPTITZA AND PAPYLICK 64 SOME OF THE DANCES WERE VERY COMPLICATED 96 KISIKA IN HER SEDAN-CHAIR 128 THE PICNIC WHICH FOLLOWED WAS AN UNFORGETTABLE REPAST 160 IN BLACK AND WHITE PAGE REDY 2 SMALY 3 IN THIS LAND ALL THE BIRDS WORE HATS AND SPURS 4 REDY'S HANDS WERE CRYING WITH FRIGHT 6