It did not occur to include Coutlass in the calculations, or to dismiss him from them; but without exchanging any remarks on the subject it was clear enough to all of us that no such plan could hope to succeed with the Greek at large, at liberty to spoil it.

We saw we should have to keep him in our party for the present.
"Don't forget," said Coutlass, more accustomed than we to seizing the strategic points of desperate situations, "that Schillingschen will have his own boys with him from German East." "I didn't see any with him on the launch," I objected.
"He would never have come without them" Coutlass insisted.

"He made them lie below the water-line out of reach of bullets at the only time when you might have seen them! He wouldn't trust himself to British porters.

My word, no! That devil knows natives! He knows some of them might be British government spies! He'll have his own boys,--if they can't carry all his loads he'll buy donkeys at Mumias; there are always donkeys to be bought at that place, brought down from Turkana by the Arab ivory traders.

Do donkeys talk ?" At any rate, we talked, and made no bones at all about including Georges Coutlass in the conversation.