The other nobles follow their king's leadership and, giving up their futile attempts to save the city, flee to Mount Satana.  Pipeck, the king's brother, a demon skilled in clairvoyance and the arts of astrology, and Intorachit, his son, succeed in escaping the doomed city.

Kumpagan, however, the Regent of Longka and another brother of Totsagan, is almost killed.  He is a prodigious eater, and a sleeper without equal.  At a sitting he not infrequently devours a whole flock of sheep and a herd of cattle, washing them down with enough wine to float a large ship.  Then it is his custom to sleep off the effects of this snack, a nap to him being a couple of months long.  The burning of Longka takes place during one of his sleeps, and it is only through the devotion of his wives that he is woken and hurried out of the city, belching and muttering thickly to himself,

while there is still time.