If we could not get a boat we must remain in that foodless forest until we starved.

Or if we returned to the island of the Flower, there ere long we should certainly be attacked and destroyed by Komba and the Pongos when they came to look for our bodies.
"I'll try it, Hans," I said.
"Yes, Baas, I thought you would.

I'd come, too, only I can't swim and when I was drowning I might make a noise, because one forgets oneself then, Baas.

But it will be all right, for if it were otherwise I am sure that your reverend father would have shown us so in the sign.

The moth floated off quite comfortably on the wood, and just now I saw it spread its wings and fly away.