'And now, Quatermain, tell us, where do you propose going to ?' I lit my pipe, which had gone out, before answering.
'Have you people ever heard of Mt Kenia ?' I asked.
'Don't know the place,' said Good.
'Did you ever hear of the Island of Lamu ?' I asked again.
'No.

Stop, though -- isn't it a place about 300 miles north of Zanzibar ?' 'Yes.

Now listen.

What I have to propose is this.

That we go to Lamu and thence make our way about 250 miles inland to Mt Kenia; from Mt Kenia on inland to Mt Lekakisera, another 200 miles, or thereabouts, beyond which no white man has to the best of my belief ever been; and then, if we get so far, right on into the unknown interior.