And because intrenched in their fastnesses, after much protracted fighting, they had eventually succeeded in repelling the warriors dispatched by Bello to crush their insurrection, they were unanimous in the opinion, that the hump-backed king had never before been so signally chastised.

Whereas, they had not so much vanquished Bello, as defended their shores; even as a young lion will protect its den against legions of unicorns, though, away from home, he might be torn to pieces.

In truth, Braid-Beard declared, that at the time of this war, Dominora couched ten long spears for every short javelin Vivenza could dart; though the javelins were stoutly hurled as the spears.
But, superior in men and arms, why, at last, gave over King Bello the hope of reducing those truculent men of Vivenza?
One reason was, as Mohi said, that many of his fighting men were abundantly occupied in other quarters of Mardi; nor was he long in discovering that fight he never so valiantly, Vivenza--not yet its inhabitants--was wholly unconquerable.

Thought Bello, Mountains are sturdy foes; fate hard to dam.
Yet, the men of Vivenza were no dastards; not to lie, coming from lion-like loins, they were a lion-loined race.

Did not their bards pronounce them a fresh start in the Mardian species; requiring a new world for their full development?
For be it known, that the great land of Kolumbo, no inconsiderable part of which was embraced by Vivenza, was the last island discovered in the Archipelago.
In good round truth, and as if an impartialist from Arcturus spoke it, Vivenza was a noble land.