A magician, a widower from the Sudan, and an automat travel the world... It is 1876. Three close friends-Jonas Celwyn, the automat Professor Xiau Kang, and Bartholomew, a scientist and widower from Sudan-set out on another adventure. Celwyn has been wounded and all that keeps the immortal peyote-eating magician alive are the skills of an old enemy, his half-brother Pelaez. After Celwyn is taken...