[Again with the firebreathers! Temeraire looks vaguely annoyed at the question.] Oh, we cannot all breathe fire, and in any case a firebreather can be quite as dangerous to its own crew's munitions as it is to an enemy's--though they are quite valuable, I will give you that.

I suppose the diplomatic solution is to simply give them the land they want so badly, but that would be unthinkable; they have no right to it, for a start.