TXTE are alone in a strange land, we have missed the road and lost all our bearings ; now should any one take us by the hand and lead us home, what return can we make for his kindness ? Even so 1 stood stark naked, O Keshiraja, I felt ashamed I could do thee no service. I was like a child whose mother cast him forth with a great throe, heedless even if the spot were fit for his birth ; when heat and thirst and hunger set him screaming, she would put him to her breast ; what shall I say of it ? I was like a great criminal that goes forth to die, with an iron pole on his shoulder. Yet, says Tuka, this is what happened : Some one snatched me away and set me in shelter behind him.