"We might as well live comfortably as to die unseasonably here.

Another little suggestion, Mr.Saunders.Please tell Lord Deppingham that if he persists in snooping about the ravines in search of rubies, he'll get an unmanageable bullet in the back of his head some day soon.

He's being watched all the time.

The natives resent his actions, foolish as they may seem to us.

This is not child's play.
He has no right to a single ruby, even if he should see one and know what it was.