DISILLUSION Once more it was morning, and the travellers were encamped by that reedy point where they had left the big boats which they cut loose from the island.

From the earliest dawn Leonard had been superintending the transport across the river of the hundreds of slaves whom they had released.

They there were put on shore by the Settlement men, provided with a store of meal, and left to shift for themselves, it being found utterly impossible to take them any further.
"There, they are gone," said Otter, as the last boat-load set out under the charge of Peter.

"Well, let them go, the silly sheep.

So much the less trouble for us, who, although we have a Shepherdess, can scarcely lead so large a flock.