We should tear ourselves to pieces if we tried to make through the jungle in the dark." "I tell you what would give us a better chance--we might take off two or three yards of that bandage of yours, cut the strip in half, and twist it into a rope; then when those fellows doze off a little, we might throw the things round their necks, and it would be all up with them." "But you see I have only one arm, Harry." "Bother it! I never thought of that.

Well, I might do the securing, one fellow first, and then the other.

You could get close to him, and if he moves, catch up his kris and cut him down." "Yes, I could do that.

Well, anyhow, Harry, we can but try; anything is better than waiting here hour after hour for the messenger to come back with what will be our death warrant." They agreed to keep awake by turns, and accordingly lay down as soon as it became dark, the Malays, as usual, squatting at a distance of a couple of paces each side of them.

It was about two o'clock in the morning when Dick, who was awake, saw, as he supposed, one of the crew standing up a few yards away; he was not sure, for just at that moment the figure disappeared.
"What on earth could that fellow want to stand up for and lie down again?
for I can swear he was not there half a minute ago.