What do you say?
It will be a perilous business, mind, for if Abeokuta is taken we shall assuredly be put to death with the rest of the defenders." "I think we ought to help them, sir," Frank said.

"They must be a noble people, and with our guns and the four Houssas we might really be of material assistance.

Of course there is a risk in it, but we have risked our lives from fever, and in other ways, every day since we've been in the country." "Very well, my lad.

I am glad that is your decision.

Tell him, Ugly Tom, that we will at once move towards Abeokuta with all speed, and that they had better send out a party of carriers to meet us, as you may be sure that these men will not go far when they hear that the Dahomey people are on the warpath.