Truth is the most valuable thing we have.

Let us economize it.
-- Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.
From Diary:--For a day or two we have been plowing among an invisible vast wilderness of islands, catching now and then a shadowy glimpse of a member of it.

There does seem to be a prodigious lot of islands this year; the map of this region is freckled and fly-specked all over with them.

Their number would seem to be uncountable.

We are moving among the Fijis now--224 islands and islets in the group.