If he chose to keep it, how should we return?
Besides, it contained our only barrel of powder, and all our articles of traffic, and how could we expect it would escape pillage?
Mr.Willis confessed he had not yet been able to cure their fondness for theft, and suggested, as the only means of security, that I should accompany the king, and bring the pinnace back, which was then to be committed to the charge of Parabery, for whose honesty he would be responsible.
Here was another delay; the day was so far advanced, that I might not, perhaps, be able to return before night.

Besides, though my wife did not know we were so near her, she knew they had carried away Francis, and she would certainly be very uneasy about him.

Bara-ourou looked very impatient, and as it was necessary to answer him, I decided at once; I resigned Francis to the missionary, entreating him to take him to his mother, to prepare her for our approach, and to relate the cause of our delay.

I told my sons, it was my desire they should accompany me.

Fritz agreed rather indignantly, and Ernest with calmness.