He will be delighted to see you." "What! steer through a green sea of leaves like that ?" said the captain, stretching his arm towards the vast forest that lay stretched out below them, "and on my legs, too, that have been used all their lives to a ship's deck?
No, my son.

I will content myself with this lucky meetin'.
But, I say, Nigel, lad," continued the old man, somewhat more seriously, "what if the Peak o' Ra--Ra, what's-'is-name, should take to spoutin' like this one, an' you, as you say, livin' under it ?" "Ha! das 'zackly what _I_ say," interposed Moses.

"Das what I oftin says to massa, but he nebber answers.

He only smile.

Massa's not always so purlite as he might be!" "There is no fear," said Nigel, "not at present, anyhow, for Van der Kemp says that the force of this eruption is diminishing--" "It don't look much like it," muttered the captain, as the volcano at that moment gave vent to a burst which seemed like a sarcastic laugh at the hermit's opinion, and sent the more timid of the excursionists sprawling down the cinder-slope in great alarm.
"There's reason in what you say, father," said Nigel, when the diminution of noise rendered speech more easy; "and after all, as we start off on our travels to-morrow, your visit could not have been a long one." "Where do you go first ?" asked the captain.
"Not sure.