What do you think of it ?" He indicated the dismal prospect with a harsh laugh.
"A bit suggestive of Hell," he went on, "eh?
How does it strike you ?" "Finer timber, I should think," suggested Jack Meredith, and Durnovo laughed more pleasantly.
"The truth is," he explained, "that it strikes one as a bit absurd that any man should travel up here for pleasure.

If you take my advice you will come down-stream again with me to-morrow." He evidently distrusted him; and the sidelong, furtive glance suggested vaguely that Victor Durnovo had something farther up this river which he wished to keep concealed.
"I understand," answered Meredith, with a half-suppressed yawn, "that the country gets finer farther up--more mountainous--less suggestive of--Hell." The proprietors of very dark eyes would do well to remember that it is dangerous to glance furtively to one side or the other.

The attention of dark eyes is more easily felt than the glances of grey or blue orbs.
Jack Meredith's suspicions were aroused by the suspicious manner of his interlocutor.
"There is no white man knows this river as I do, and I do not recommend it.

Look at me--on the verge of jaundice--look at this wound on my arm; it began with a scratch and has never healed.

All that comes from a month up this cursed river.