So was Fred.
"Get a move on, Didums, for God's sake!" he growled.
"Well," said Monty, "there seems something in this ivory business.

Our chance ought to be as good as anybody's.

But there are one or two stiff hurdles.

In the first place, the story is common property.
Every one knows it--Arabs--Swahili--Greeks--Germans--English.

To be suspected of looking for it would spell failure, for the simple reason that every adventurer on the coast would trail us, and if we did find it we shouldn't be able to keep the secret for five minutes.