Each had a thousand questions to ask the other.

They were total strangers; but it is not, one finds, by conversation that men get to know each other.

A common danger, a common pleasure, a common pursuit--these are the touches of Nature by which men are drawn together into the kinship of mutual esteem.
Once they gained the banks of the Ogowe their progress was quicker, and by nine o'clock they reached the camp at Msala.

Victor Durnovo was still at work superintending the discharge of the baggage and stores from the large trading-canoes.

They heard the shouting and chattering before coming in sight of the camp, and one voice raised angrily above the others.
"Is that Durnovo's voice ?" asked Meredith.
"Yes," answered his companion curtly.
It was a new voice which Meredith had not heard before.