Still, it will be something.

Then we must do something for the East.

It would never do to overlook the East." "It would certainly be an oversight," said Robert, who was keenly alive to the comical side of the question.

Raffles Haw, however, in deadly earnest, sat scratching away at his map with his blue pencil.
"Here is a point where we might be of some little use.

If we cut through from Batoum to the Kura River we might tap the trade of the Caspian, and open up communication with all the rivers which run into it.