If I can do so with your leave I shall be glad.

If not----" and I glanced at the fierce group of hunters behind me.
H.: "Honoured English lord, I shall be grieved to use force, but let me tell you that in my peaceful village ashore I have at least a hundred men armed with rifles, whereas here I see under twenty." A.Q., after reflection and a few words with Stephen Somers: "Can you tell me, noble sir, if from your peaceful village you have yet sighted the English man-of-war, _Crocodile_; I mean the steamer that is engaged in watching for the dhows of wicked slavers?
A letter from her captain informed me that he would be in these waters by yesterday.

Perhaps, however, he has been delayed for a day or two." If I had exploded a bomb at the feet of the excellent Hassan its effect could scarcely have been more remarkable than that of this question.

He turned--not pale, but a horrible yellow, and exclaimed: "English man-of-war! _Crocodile_! I thought she had gone to Aden to refit and would not be back at Zanzibar for four months." A.Q.: "You have been misinformed, noble Hassan.

She will not refit till October.