After the honeymoon we prepared for the expedition.
Stanton was as enthusiastic as ourselves.

We sailed, as you know, last May for fulfilment of my dreams.
"At Ponape we selected, not without difficulty, workmen to help us--diggers.

I had to make extraordinary inducements before I could get together my force.

Their beliefs are gloomy, these Ponapeans.

They people their swamps, their forests, their mountains, and shores, with malignant spirits--ani they call them.