We must get a good supply of powder, if we can, some bullets and shot.

We shall have to get our meat by shooting.
"There is no time to be lost, and tonight we had better go to that settler's place nearest the town.

He has got two of the best horses out here--at least so Redgrave, that shepherd I was talking to today, told me--and a well filled store of provisions.

If he will let us have them without rumpus, all well and good; if not, it will be the worse for him.

My idea is that we should ride two or three hundred miles along the coast until we get to a river, follow it up till we find a tidy place for a camp, and stop there for three or four months, then come back again and keep ourselves quiet until we find out that a ship is going to sail; then we will do a night among the farmhouses, and clean them out of their watches and money, manage to get on board, and hide till we are well out to sea.