Failing to bring both adventures within the sixteen hours of light which at this season and in this latitude we should enjoy, we were to bivouac for the night on the northern sea-coast and pursue our aquatic game in the morning of the morrow, returning before dark to our vessel.
Ergimo, however, was more of Eveena's mind than of mine.

"I have complied," he said, "with your wishes, as the Campta ordered me to do.
But I am equally bound, by his orders and by my duty, to tell you that in my opinion you are running risks altogether out of proportion to any object our adventure can serve.

Scarcely any of the creatures we shall hunt are other than very formidable.

Eyen the therne, with the spikes on its fore-limbs, can inflict painful if not dangerous wounds, and its bite is said to be not unfrequently venomous.

You are not used to our methods of hunting, to the management of the _caldecta_, or to the use of our weapons.