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The Chronicle of Akakor
soldiers called a game on a painted board with wooden figures.) Then they returned again to Akakor and
lived with their families.

Wars in Peru

A new advance by white settlers started in the West in the year 12,444 (1963). They had discovered the
hidden gold mines of the Incas and started pillaging them. The news of the gold brought ever greater hordes
of White Barbarians to the Akai region. Our scouts had to flee. The high council was faced with a difficult
decision: It could give up the last territory on the eastern slopes of the Andes or order the warriors of the
Ugha Mongulala into battle. At the insistence of the German soldiers, war was declared.

I myself can give a detailed report on the ensuing struggle with the White Barbarians. As Prince Sinkaia’s
son, the high council entrusted me with the supreme command of the Ugha Mongulala forces. A German
officer accompanied me on the campaign. In forced marches, my warriors penetrated deeply into the border
province of Peru. They drove off the White Barbarians and destroyed the Inca gold mines. Our enemies fled
in panic from the conquered territory. But the initial success of my warriors came abruptly to a halt when a
white army mounted a counterattack. Only a fast retreat saved us from complete extinction. The pursuing
White Barbarians attacked the settlements of the Allied Tribe of the Great Voice. They killed women and
children and enslaved the captured men. It seemed inevitable that they would discover Akakor. Because of
this, the high council decided to use the weapons of the German soldiers.

And for the first time, the White Barbarians encountered their equal in battle. In a rapid counterattack, my
warriors destroyed the advance guard of the white soldiers and trapped their main force in the fortress called
Maldonado. Then the siege started. For three days, our big war drums caused the enemy great confusion.
For three days, the drums called forth fear and terror. In the early morning of the fourth day, I gave the
order to attack. We broke out of our hiding places, scaled the walls, and advanced on the fortress with loud
war cries. The embittered struggle ended with the complete defeat of our enemies. By the time the enemy’s
relief arrived, my warriors had long since retreated.

This brilliant victory initiated a bloody guerrilla war on the western frontiers of the empire that is still going
on today. Although the White Barbarians have mobilized a powerful army, they have not succeeded in
advancing to Akakor. Their soldiers have repeatedly been driven off or killed by our warriors. But my
people have also suffered heavy losses in this struggle. Innumerable men lost their lives. More than half of
the fertile territory on the eastern slopes of the Andes has been destroyed. Our last Allied Tribes have lost
confidence in the strength of the Chosen People and are turning away from us.

What will be? The Chosen Tribes are hungry. They have eaten the grass on the fields. The bark
of the trees was their food. They were poor. They owned nothing. Animal skins were their only
clothes. But the White Barbarians did not give them peace. They advanced without mercy. The
warriors were brutally defeated. The whites wanted to wipe the Chosen People off the face of
the earth.
The Twelve Generals of the White Barbarians

The eastern frontier remained calm during the fight against the prospectors and the white settlers. Since the
withdrawal of the rubber seekers, the White Barbarians had limited themselves to occasional advances
along the Red River. They did not dare to advance further because they suspected the presence of evil spirits
in the liana wilderness of the Andes. In this way, the Ugha Mongulala remained undisturbed, protected by
the superstition of the White Barbarians.

Only in the year 12,449 (1968) was the peace broken. An airplane—in the language of the German
soldiers— had crashed on the upper reaches of the Red River. The Allied Tribe of Black Hearts, which
lived in this region, took the survivors captive and sent the news to Akakor. Sinkaia, the prince of the Ugha
Mongulala, ordered me to kill the White Barbarians. But I did not execute his order. To preserve peace on

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