"'Pears to me I'm always wantin' to sleep.

Now, I like about sixteen hours sleepin' out o' the twenty-four, but when it comes to keepin' awake jest long enough to eat three meals a day I ain't in favor o' it." "It must be a rich country, though," said Tom Ross.

"No wonder them Spaniards want to keep it." That day they passed at some distance three canoes containing Indians, but the canoes showed no wish to come near and investigate.

Henry said that the Indians in them looked sprawling and dirty, unlike the alert, clean-limbed natives of the North.
"They probably belong," said Paul, "to the Natchez tribe who were beaten into submission long ago by the French, and who doubtless lack energy anyhow." The Indian canoes went lazily on, and soon were lost to sight.

Now a serious problem arose.