In the name of God the Compassionate, land and go wheresoever you like." A.Q.: "I think that I had almost rather wait until the _Crocodile_ comes in." H.: "Land! Land! Captain Delgado, get up the cargo and man your boat.
Mine too is at the service of these lords.

You, Captain, will like to get away by this night's tide.

There is still light, Lord Quatermain, and such hospitality as I can offer is at your service." A.Q.: "Ah! I knew Bey Hassan, that you were only joking with me when you said that you wished us to go elsewhere.

An excellent jest, truly, from one whose hospitality is so famous.

Well, to fall in with your wishes, we will come ashore this evening, and if the Captain Delgado chances to sight the Queen's ship _Crocodile_ before he sails, perhaps he will be so good as to signal to us with a rocket." "Certainly, certainly," interrupted Delgado, who up to this time had pretended that he understood no English, the tongue in which I was speaking to the interpreter, Sammy.
Then he turned and gave orders to his Arab crew to bring up our belongings from the hold and to lower the _Maria's_ boat.
Never did I see goods transferred in quicker time.