Rahan. Episode Sixty Four. By Roger Lecureux. The eye that sees far. A Puke (TM) Comic.

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Episode Sixty Four.

By Roger Lecureux, drawn by Guy Zam.

The eye that sees far.

The torrent of lava had spread to the shore, releasing such strong heat that the fine sand had melted, itself flowing into the sea.
And, the anger of the volcano was appeased.

The sea had thrown up translucent rocks into the coves, which it had shattered into fragments more numerous than the stars.

Then the waves, patiently, had worn away these shards, and had polished them to make sparkling pebbles!
But all this had happened many centuries before the son of Crao discovered this shore.

Page Two.

If the son of Crao had recently fled a clan that meant him no harm, it was quite different this morning!

The long, pointed spears struck closer and closer behind him.
Oh! Rahan should have stayed in the forest!

“Hair of Fire” Will not go any further! He is at our mercy!
The fugitive, in fact, should have stopped at the edge of the cliff, which dominated the ocean.

But why do you want to steal Rahan's life?
What did he do to you?
A few spears still whistled.

The son of Crao, surrounded by these men of whom he knew nothing, had only one chance left to escape them.
The jump into the void!

Page Three.

As the semi-circle of hunters closed, he did not hesitate any longer.
It was a fantastic dive but Rahan had achieved even more dangerous ones!

A clamor of stupefaction arose.
“Hair of Fire” preferred to kill himself!
He steals our fish, it is good that he is devoured by the fish!

Fortunately, the water was deep.
The son of Crao sank into it with the force of a rock spat out by the thundering mountain!

And the amazement was at its height when he reappeared on the surface.
The fact that he could “Crawl on water” was amazing to these men.
Did they dream again?

Death to the thief!
The chief's savage order brought these hunters back to reality.

Page Four.

Rahan saw the spears coming at a crazy speed.
They were falling straight towards him!
He only had time.

To let himself sink, narrowly escaping this deadly rain.
They brushed against Rahan so closely that the hunters might have thought that they had hit him!

And indeed.
Arakan's prediction has finally come true brothers!
We have killed the thief, "Hair-of-Fire"!

Swimming near the cliff that had been hollowed out by the waves, the son of Crao could no longer be seen by the hunters.
Oh! What a strange shore!

At an arrow's distance, the cliff fell abruptly onto a large cove.
A cove, whose sand sparkled, shimmered like a lake in the sunlight!

Page Five.

Oh!
A few sharks were floating here and there but Rahan noticed that the fish were very rare.

The bottom was lined with curious translucent pebbles, which in less clear water would have been invisible.

The one that Rahan brought to the surface looked like a tear.
The petrified tear of a gigantic monster!
A “water stone”!
Rahan has never seen such a beautiful stone!

The huge drop of glass sparkled wonderfully.
The “Stone-of-water” is more wonderful, more brilliant than the knife of Rahan.

But the sharks were getting dangerously close and the son of Crao had to think about his own fate.
With you "water stone", Rahan would not escape the "blue skins"!

Page Six.

Abandoning the "Thing" at the depths, he swam vigorously towards the cove that had so intrigued him.

A moment later he approached the sparkling shore.
It was covered with shards of glass of all sizes and shapes.

Some were sharp like flint, but others were more like "water stone."
Some were round like an eye, others round like an almond.

And they all sparkled with a thousand lights.
Are you once "Water Stones" that were broken on these rocks?
Only the “blue-skins” could say that!

The sharks retreated towards the open sea and suddenly the son of Crao screamed in astonishment.
Oh!

Page Seven.

Looking through the transparent stone, a huge finger was revealed!
When he moved his hand away, this finger became blurred and disappeared.

While he meditated on this new mystery.
Your prediction was right, Arakan!
We chased a man with “Fire Hair” who was roaming in the forest and we killed him!

Arakan the soothsayer turned towards the totem.
Dahar is too sure of himself!
The grand fish tells Arakan that this man is still alive!
He will come back to steal our fish again!

We do not know how to crawl on water.
But if the “blue-skins” have not devoured “Fire-hair”.
The great river will throw his corpse back on the shore.
We will bring it back to you, Arakan!

The son of Crao, however, went from discovery to discovery.
Under the glass eye, everything became fantastic.
The heart of flowers became like a crater.

Page Eight.

And the tiny ants turned into monsters!
The flat tear shows Rahan what he would never have seen!

The flat tear has wonderful power!
Rahan must protect it!
Bamboo had already allowed him countless discoveries.

The first sheath of his cutlass.
Javelins and three-headed arrows.
Soft poles and light travois.
And the oil torch.
And some that he had forgotten!

This time the bamboo became a case, into which he slipped the precious glass lens.
And the bamboos will allow Rahan to leave this shore!

He will flee the cliff clan, which kills for no reason!
The great river will carry him to the other land.
The other land was this distant island that could barely be seen on the horizon.

Page Nine.

Oh!
What? What?
Although he shook the case hard, the “Tear of Water” did not come out!

And he noticed that it was stuck in the bamboo, just behind the narrow hole in the groove.

Rahan will dislodge you rom there!
More impatient, and irritated, the son of Crao turned the case over and hit the ground with it several times.

Oh!
Not only had the "Tear of Water" not moved, but a second shard of glass had become stuck in the end of the tube.

Everything so far had been astonishing.
But when Rahan brought the bamboo to his eye, the effect was prodigious!
The landscape had suddenly closed in on him, encircling him as if to bury him!

Page Ten.

The distant island now seemed very close, although slightly blurry.
The image suggested the creeks, the coconut trees, the huts of a village!

“The eye that sees far”!
Rahan has discovered “the eye that sees far”!
In his enthusiasm, the son of Crao wanted to see everything.
The birds on the crest of the hills,

And that's how he saw the cliff clan.
Leaving their village, the hunters went down the only track that led to the shore, to the cove where he was!

The hunters have new spears!
Without “the eye that sees far,” Rahan would have seen them too late!

But they are still very far away and Rahan has time to set a trap for them!

Page Eleven.

However.
If the great river has rejected "Firehair", we will find his corpse in the cove of the sun!

The son of Crao was finishing his "Trap" when he heard those from the cliff.
The great stump rose higher and higher.
He was ready!

Rahan will probably die!
But he will not leave for the territory of shadows without fighting!

Ra-ha-ha!
When Dahar and his hunters appeared, rushing towards the creek, Rahan released the heavy stump!

Brutally cut down, ten men collapsed.
They were only momentarily out of combat, but the effect of surprise was decisive!

Page Twelve.

Are you a demon “Fire Hair”?
You jump off the cliff without your body bursting!
You avoid our spears and you escape the “Blue skins.” Only a demon can do that!

So why were you lying in wait for us?
Without knowing what we were looking for!?
Rahan is not a demon!
He is the son of Crao!

Rahan has been watching for you for a long time, thanks to “The Eye That Sees Far”!
But why are you tracking him?
Because you have stolen our fish too often!

Arakan-the-soothsayer has always told us that a man with fiery hair slips into the village at night to steal fish.
Dahar and his brothers often kept watch to capture him.

But in vain! We were beginning to think that Arakan was wrong when, this morning, we saw you!
But why do you come and steal the fish that we have so much difficulty perching, you who know how to crawl on the water!?

The son of Crao was devastated.
Arakan is crazy!
Rahan had never seen your village before seeing it in the far-seeing eye!
Like this! Look for yourself.

Page thirteen.

Incredulous, Dahar brought the bamboo to his eye.
At first he had an expression of wonder, but then his face suddenly tightened.

Arakan!
Dahar understands why he said that "hair-of-Fire" was not dead!

Although the scene was imprecise, it was not misleading.
All the way up in the deserted village, Arakan the soothsayer took the last fish drying in the sun!

If "The Eye That Sees Far" tells the truth, Arakan will be punished!
And you, “Fire Hair”, you will become our brother! Follow us!

Arakan-the-soothsayer was in ecstasy in front of the totem when his own appeared.
We are bringing back "Fire-hair" Arakan!
Hum! Hum!

Let this demon be slain immediately!
He will be if Dahar does not find what he thinks he finds!
The clan chief rushed towards the “Soothsayer’s” hut.

Page Fourteen.

He came out almost immediately.
Look, brothers!
And there are just as many under his mattress!
For many moons, Arakan has been deceiving us!
Let him be delivered to the “Blue Skins”!

Do not do that! Arakan may have wanted to.
Wanted what? To live for himself alone! This cheat does not deserve your pity!
They were already dragging Arakan towards the cliff.

The rare fish that wash up barely feed our clan!
Arkan knew it!
To deceive us, he imagined an elusive "Theif with hair of fire."

He probably believed that this hair color did not exist, and that he could abuse our trust for a long time!

But he, the soothsayer, did not know that a fiery-haired hunter would one day venture into our territory!

Page Fifteen.

Without "The Eye That Sees Far" his crime would never have been discovered!
They barely heard the howl of terror of Arakan as he was thrown into the great river.

This “Eye” is magnificent!
“Hair-of-fire” should make more for our hunters!
Rahan will try!

In the days that followed, the son of Crao often returned to the "creek of the sun".
He built a bamboo skiff there.

And sought to make another “Eye that sees far.”
But everything was an obstacle.
The length of the cases.
The shape of the shards of glass.

Chance, which had revealed a marvelous secret to Rahan, was not repeated!
And millennia would pass before man invented his telescope.

Page Sixteen.

And one morning, while the great river roared, the son of Crao admitted his failure
Rahan does not know how to remake "The Eye That Sees Far"!

Rahan did everything to understand.
But there is too much mystery in this “Eye”!
You have to believe Rahan, brothers! Believe me!

But understand that Rahan is just a hunter like you!
From the hostile hubbub that he raised, the son of Crao understood that his good faith was doubted.

Rahan does not want to dominate his brothers with a magic item!
Rahan only wants to be their friend!
He can prove it by giving your chief the eye that sees far!

Dahar took the bamboo with a trembling hand.
Rahan is loyal! But how will he see now?
With his simple eyes, like all hunters!

Page Seventeen.

And his eyes are still good enough to show him that the great river is carrying away his skiff!
The bamboo raft sailed away on the waves.

Stay with us, brother!
We will share “The Eye That Sees Far”!

No, Dahar!
Rahan never takes root in a territory!

He saw, on the distant island, the huts of another tribe!
That is where he will go!
This is where he will discover other mysteries!

Goodbye Brothers!
God or demon?
The hunters of Dahar would not have been able to tell.
The being who stood on the cliff looked so much like them!

Ra-ha-ha!
Everyone rushed forward when, repeating his incredible feat, he plunged into the great river.

Page Eighteen.

And they saw him, beating the "Blue-skins" in speed, climb onto the tiny bamboo skiff.

Faster, “Blue-skins”!
Faster! Rahan wants you to escort him to the other land, ha-ha-ha!

Laughing in the spray, the son of Crao saluted Dahar and his clan who were watching him from the top of the great cliff.

Was this a good or bad spirit Dahar?

Neither brother! He was only a man!

In “The Eye That sees Far” the image was dulled and distorted.
But Dahar's tears were the cause.
Because even in those fierce times, where it was necessary to kill in order to survive, “Those-who-walk-upright” were capable of emotion.

Rahan.

Episode Sixty Four.

By Roger Lecureux.

The eye that sees far.

A Puke (TM) Comic.

Rahan.

Episode Sixty Four.

By Roger Lecureux, drawn by Guy Zam.

The eye that sees far.

The torrent of lava had spread to the shore, releasing such strong heat that the fine sand had melted, itself flowing into the sea.
And, the anger of the volcano was appeased.

The sea had thrown up translucent rocks into the coves, which it had shattered into fragments more numerous than the stars.

Then the waves, patiently, had worn away these shards, and had polished them to make sparkling pebbles!
But all this had happened many centuries before the son of Crao discovered this shore.

Page Two.

If the son of Crao had recently fled a clan that meant him no harm, it was quite different this morning!

The long, pointed spears struck closer and closer behind him.
Oh! Rahan should have stayed in the forest!

“Hair of Fire” Will not go any further! He is at our mercy!
The fugitive, in fact, should have stopped at the edge of the cliff, which dominated the ocean.

But why do you want to steal Rahan's life?
What did he do to you?
A few spears still whistled.

The son of Crao, surrounded by these men of whom he knew nothing, had only one chance left to escape them.
The jump into the void!

Page Three.

As the semi-circle of hunters closed, he did not hesitate any longer.
It was a fantastic dive but Rahan had achieved even more dangerous ones!

A clamor of stupefaction arose.
“Hair of Fire” preferred to kill himself!
He steals our fish, it is good that he is devoured by the fish!

Fortunately, the water was deep.
The son of Crao sank into it with the force of a rock spat out by the thundering mountain!

And the amazement was at its height when he reappeared on the surface.
The fact that he could “Crawl on water” was amazing to these men.
Did they dream again?

Death to the thief!
The chief's savage order brought these hunters back to reality.

Page Four.

Rahan saw the spears coming at a crazy speed.
They were falling straight towards him!
He only had time.

To let himself sink, narrowly escaping this deadly rain.
They brushed against Rahan so closely that the hunters might have thought that they had hit him!

And indeed.
Arakan's prediction has finally come true brothers!
We have killed the thief, "Hair-of-Fire"!

Swimming near the cliff that had been hollowed out by the waves, the son of Crao could no longer be seen by the hunters.
Oh! What a strange shore!

At an arrow's distance, the cliff fell abruptly onto a large cove.
A cove, whose sand sparkled, shimmered like a lake in the sunlight!

Page Five.

Oh!
A few sharks were floating here and there but Rahan noticed that the fish were very rare.

The bottom was lined with curious translucent pebbles, which in less clear water would have been invisible.

The one that Rahan brought to the surface looked like a tear.
The petrified tear of a gigantic monster!
A “water stone”!
Rahan has never seen such a beautiful stone!

The huge drop of glass sparkled wonderfully.
The “Stone-of-water” is more wonderful, more brilliant than the knife of Rahan.

But the sharks were getting dangerously close and the son of Crao had to think about his own fate.
With you "water stone", Rahan would not escape the "blue skins"!

Page Six.

Abandoning the "Thing" at the depths, he swam vigorously towards the cove that had so intrigued him.

A moment later he approached the sparkling shore.
It was covered with shards of glass of all sizes and shapes.

Some were sharp like flint, but others were more like "water stone."
Some were round like an eye, others round like an almond.

And they all sparkled with a thousand lights.
Are you once "Water Stones" that were broken on these rocks?
Only the “blue-skins” could say that!

The sharks retreated towards the open sea and suddenly the son of Crao screamed in astonishment.
Oh!

Page Seven.

Looking through the transparent stone, a huge finger was revealed!
When he moved his hand away, this finger became blurred and disappeared.

While he meditated on this new mystery.
Your prediction was right, Arakan!
We chased a man with “Fire Hair” who was roaming in the forest and we killed him!

Arakan the soothsayer turned towards the totem.
Dahar is too sure of himself!
The grand fish tells Arakan that this man is still alive!
He will come back to steal our fish again!

We do not know how to crawl on water.
But if the “blue-skins” have not devoured “Fire-hair”.
The great river will throw his corpse back on the shore.
We will bring it back to you, Arakan!

The son of Crao, however, went from discovery to discovery.
Under the glass eye, everything became fantastic.
The heart of flowers became like a crater.

Page Eight.

And the tiny ants turned into monsters!
The flat tear shows Rahan what he would never have seen!

The flat tear has wonderful power!
Rahan must protect it!
Bamboo had already allowed him countless discoveries.

The first sheath of his cutlass.
Javelins and three-headed arrows.
Soft poles and light travois.
And the oil torch.
And some that he had forgotten!

This time the bamboo became a case, into which he slipped the precious glass lens.
And the bamboos will allow Rahan to leave this shore!

He will flee the cliff clan, which kills for no reason!
The great river will carry him to the other land.
The other land was this distant island that could barely be seen on the horizon.

Page Nine.

Oh!
What? What?
Although he shook the case hard, the “Tear of Water” did not come out!

And he noticed that it was stuck in the bamboo, just behind the narrow hole in the groove.

Rahan will dislodge you rom there!
More impatient, and irritated, the son of Crao turned the case over and hit the ground with it several times.

Oh!
Not only had the "Tear of Water" not moved, but a second shard of glass had become stuck in the end of the tube.

Everything so far had been astonishing.
But when Rahan brought the bamboo to his eye, the effect was prodigious!
The landscape had suddenly closed in on him, encircling him as if to bury him!

Page Ten.

The distant island now seemed very close, although slightly blurry.
The image suggested the creeks, the coconut trees, the huts of a village!

“The eye that sees far”!
Rahan has discovered “the eye that sees far”!
In his enthusiasm, the son of Crao wanted to see everything.
The birds on the crest of the hills,

And that's how he saw the cliff clan.
Leaving their village, the hunters went down the only track that led to the shore, to the cove where he was!

The hunters have new spears!
Without “the eye that sees far,” Rahan would have seen them too late!

But they are still very far away and Rahan has time to set a trap for them!

Page Eleven.

However.
If the great river has rejected "Firehair", we will find his corpse in the cove of the sun!

The son of Crao was finishing his "Trap" when he heard those from the cliff.
The great stump rose higher and higher.
He was ready!

Rahan will probably die!
But he will not leave for the territory of shadows without fighting!

Ra-ha-ha!
When Dahar and his hunters appeared, rushing towards the creek, Rahan released the heavy stump!

Brutally cut down, ten men collapsed.
They were only momentarily out of combat, but the effect of surprise was decisive!

Page Twelve.

Are you a demon “Fire Hair”?
You jump off the cliff without your body bursting!
You avoid our spears and you escape the “Blue skins.” Only a demon can do that!

So why were you lying in wait for us?
Without knowing what we were looking for!?
Rahan is not a demon!
He is the son of Crao!

Rahan has been watching for you for a long time, thanks to “The Eye That Sees Far”!
But why are you tracking him?
Because you have stolen our fish too often!

Arakan-the-soothsayer has always told us that a man with fiery hair slips into the village at night to steal fish.
Dahar and his brothers often kept watch to capture him.

But in vain! We were beginning to think that Arakan was wrong when, this morning, we saw you!
But why do you come and steal the fish that we have so much difficulty perching, you who know how to crawl on the water!?

The son of Crao was devastated.
Arakan is crazy!
Rahan had never seen your village before seeing it in the far-seeing eye!
Like this! Look for yourself.

Page thirteen.

Incredulous, Dahar brought the bamboo to his eye.
At first he had an expression of wonder, but then his face suddenly tightened.

Arakan!
Dahar understands why he said that "hair-of-Fire" was not dead!

Although the scene was imprecise, it was not misleading.
All the way up in the deserted village, Arakan the soothsayer took the last fish drying in the sun!

If "The Eye That Sees Far" tells the truth, Arakan will be punished!
And you, “Fire Hair”, you will become our brother! Follow us!

Arakan-the-soothsayer was in ecstasy in front of the totem when his own appeared.
We are bringing back "Fire-hair" Arakan!
Hum! Hum!

Let this demon be slain immediately!
He will be if Dahar does not find what he thinks he finds!
The clan chief rushed towards the “Soothsayer’s” hut.

Page Fourteen.

He came out almost immediately.
Look, brothers!
And there are just as many under his mattress!
For many moons, Arakan has been deceiving us!
Let him be delivered to the “Blue Skins”!

Do not do that! Arakan may have wanted to.
Wanted what? To live for himself alone! This cheat does not deserve your pity!
They were already dragging Arakan towards the cliff.

The rare fish that wash up barely feed our clan!
Arkan knew it!
To deceive us, he imagined an elusive "Theif with hair of fire."

He probably believed that this hair color did not exist, and that he could abuse our trust for a long time!

But he, the soothsayer, did not know that a fiery-haired hunter would one day venture into our territory!

Page Fifteen.

Without "The Eye That Sees Far" his crime would never have been discovered!
They barely heard the howl of terror of Arakan as he was thrown into the great river.

This “Eye” is magnificent!
“Hair-of-fire” should make more for our hunters!
Rahan will try!

In the days that followed, the son of Crao often returned to the "creek of the sun".
He built a bamboo skiff there.

And sought to make another “Eye that sees far.”
But everything was an obstacle.
The length of the cases.
The shape of the shards of glass.

Chance, which had revealed a marvelous secret to Rahan, was not repeated!
And millennia would pass before man invented his telescope.

Page Sixteen.

And one morning, while the great river roared, the son of Crao admitted his failure
Rahan does not know how to remake "The Eye That Sees Far"!

Rahan did everything to understand.
But there is too much mystery in this “Eye”!
You have to believe Rahan, brothers! Believe me!

But understand that Rahan is just a hunter like you!
From the hostile hubbub that he raised, the son of Crao understood that his good faith was doubted.

Rahan does not want to dominate his brothers with a magic item!
Rahan only wants to be their friend!
He can prove it by giving your chief the eye that sees far!

Dahar took the bamboo with a trembling hand.
Rahan is loyal! But how will he see now?
With his simple eyes, like all hunters!

Page Seventeen.

And his eyes are still good enough to show him that the great river is carrying away his skiff!
The bamboo raft sailed away on the waves.

Stay with us, brother!
We will share “The Eye That Sees Far”!

No, Dahar!
Rahan never takes root in a territory!

He saw, on the distant island, the huts of another tribe!
That is where he will go!
This is where he will discover other mysteries!

Goodbye Brothers!
God or demon?
The hunters of Dahar would not have been able to tell.
The being who stood on the cliff looked so much like them!

Ra-ha-ha!
Everyone rushed forward when, repeating his incredible feat, he plunged into the great river.

Page Eighteen.

And they saw him, beating the "Blue-skins" in speed, climb onto the tiny bamboo skiff.

Faster, “Blue-skins”!
Faster! Rahan wants you to escort him to the other land, ha-ha-ha!

Laughing in the spray, the son of Crao saluted Dahar and his clan who were watching him from the top of the great cliff.

Was this a good or bad spirit Dahar?

Neither brother! He was only a man!

In “The Eye That sees Far” the image was dulled and distorted.
But Dahar's tears were the cause.
Because even in those fierce times, where it was necessary to kill in order to survive, “Those-who-walk-upright” were capable of emotion.

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