He was a tall and powerfully built negro, very ugly, but with a pleasant and honest face.

Frank felt at once that he should like him.
"You quite understand," Mr.Goodenough explained, "we are going through the Fan country, far into the interior.

We may be away from the coast for many months." "Me ready, sar," the man answered with a grin.

"Mak no odds to Ostik.

He got no wife, no piccanniny.