Kurgan tribe known as the Yusak, savage and ferocious warriors as much at home on horseback as on foot, had heard of Grimgor's approach and gathered to meet him.

Once or twice under the foothills I glimpsed the mound of a kurgan, broken open like the lips of a volcano – the burial-place of a tribal chief, perhaps, or the milestone of some lost nomad advance.

Once or twice under the foothills I glimpsed the mound of a kurgan broken open like the lips of a volcano? The burial-place of a tribal chief perhaps or the milestone of some lost nomad advance.