Notes[1] This is intriguing. It seems to imply that Prescot did fight a leem barehanded before — or possibly after — he had become a Krozair of Zy on the Eye of the World. If so, it is just one more fascinating story lost to us in those tapes, as recounted in The Suns of Scorpio. A.B.A.
[2] db: Dwaburs per bur.
[3] See Swordships of Scorpio, Chapter Fifteen: “I give an opinion at Careless Repose.”
[4] At this point occurs another of these annoying breaks in the Tapes from Rio de Janeiro. Prescot has just begun a fresh cassette. There is a sound of a door opening in the background. Then a voice calls in Portuguese: “Dray, my friend. The cars are waiting. Leave those infernal recordings of yours!” And, distantly, there is the sound of a girl laughing. Then follows merely a muddle of noi
