Lonely Sultan of Isabella De Basilan

Aagantry, the catch-scarlate queen, Philip Carney master. Position six degrees, eight minutes north, 122 degrees, 15 minutes east. Wind brisk, sky fair. Remarks departed Sulu Islands at dawn after violent exit from Royal Palace. Reason for violence?

The lonely sultan of Isabella de Basaland. And the Basaland is the northernmost of the Sulu group, which forms the palm-studded division line between the Sulu Sea to the east and the Celebi Sea to the west.

Its chief city, Isabella de Barcelona, a collection of bamboo and mipapam houses grouped around the Mohammedan Temple and a few shops and offices, was a crucial port on the voyage of the Scarlet Queen. There we would have contact an aged and trusted friend of Puji Kang, the Sultan of the island, Kamalul Hakayam II.

From his hands we would have received what had grown to be the most important document in the world, the final instructions, the chart showing the actual location of $10 million worth of priceless relics that trace the eight historic periods of China's past and China's beginning. So it was with feelings mixed between elation and something like dread

that we made our moorings in the lazy harbor of Isabella and were bordered by the turban little court official. Which is Captain Juan? That's me. I will look at papers written for the ship, Juan.

Yeah, they are already for you. Mmm. You have no purpose here, Twan? Yeah, I got a good purpose here. I have business with Kamalul Hakayam II. Knowing Twan that shadows come and shadows go, this island will be a place of desolation for you.

His shadow is no longer with us. Forget to the point, Jimini's dead? for five days to once. His son is even now at home in the great chambers of the palace of Marmanuk, as Kamalul Hakayam III, Sultan of Basiran.