All asses' brays were now harmonious memories; all Calibans, as angels.
Yet for every stare we gave them, three stares they gave us.
At last, we halted before a tenement of rude stones; crooked Banian boughs its rafters, thatched with fantastic leaves.

So rambling and irregular its plan, it seemed thrown up by the eruption, according to sage Mohi, the origin of the isle itself.
Entering, we saw King Yoky.
Ah! sadly lacking was he, in all the requisites of an efficient ruler.
Deaf and dumb he was; and save arms, minus every thing but an indispensable trunk and head.

So huge his all-comprehensive mouth, it seemed to swallow up itself.
But shapeless, helpless as was Yoky,--as king of Hooloomooloo, he was competent; the state being a limited monarchy, of which his Highness was but the passive and ornamental head.
As his visitors advanced, he fell to gossiping with his fingers: a servitor interpreting.

Very curious to note the rapidity with which motion was translated into sound; and the simultaneousness with which meaning made its way through four successive channels to the mind--hand, sight, voice, and tympanum.
Much amazement His Highness now expressed; horrified his glances.
"Why club such frights as ye?
Herd ye, to keep in countenance; or are afraid of your own hideousness, that ye dread to go alone?
Monsters! speak." "Great Oro!" cried Mohi, "are we then taken for cripples, by the very King of the Cripples?
My lord, are not our legs and arms all right ?" "Comelier ones were never turned by turners, Mohi.

But royal Yoky! in sooth we feel abashed before thee." Some further stares were then exchanged; when His Highness sought to know, whether there were any Comparative Anatomists among his visitors.
"Comparative Anatomists! not one." "And why may King Yoky ask that question ?" inquired Babbalanja.
Then was made the following statement.
During the latter part of his reign, when he seemed fallen into his dotage, the venerable predecessor of King Yoky had been much attached to an old gray-headed Chimpanzee, one day found meditating in the woods.