"At last!" he said. "My good sir! This is remarkable!" Although in Trob the last word in fact became "a thing which may happen but once in the usable lifetime

"At last!" he said. "My good sir! This is remarkable!" Although in Trob the last word in fact became "a thing which may happen but once in the usable lifetime of a canoe hollowed diligently by axe and fire from the tallest diamondwood tree that grows in the noted diamondwood forests on the lower slopes of Mount Awayawa, home of the firegods or so it is said."