"This is Moses, father, my host's servant, and my very good friend, and a remarkably free-and-easy friend, as you see.

He will guide us back to the cave, since Van der Kemp seems to have left us." "Who's Van der Kemp ?" asked the captain.
"The hermit of Rakata, father--that's his name.

His father was a Dutchman and his mother an English or Irish woman--I forget which.

He's a splendid fellow; quite different from what one would expect; no more like a hermit than a hermit-crab, except that he lives in a cave under the Peak of Rakata, at the other end of the island.

But you must come with us and pay him a visit.