Do you remember, Mr.
Jenks, that soon after the wreck you told me we might have to remain here many months ?" "That was a pardonable exaggeration." "No, no.

It was the truth.

You are seeking now to buoy me up with false hope.

It is sixteen hundred miles from Hong Kong to Singapore, and half as much from Siam to Borneo.

The _Sirdar_ might have been driven anywhere in the typhoon.