But come, you will understand things better when you see us making our arrangements.

Of course you understand how to manage sails of every kind ?" "If I did not it would ill become me to call myself a sailor," returned our hero.
"That is well, because you will sit in the middle, from which position the sail is partly managed.

I usually sit in the bow to have free range for the use of my gun, if need be, and Moses steers." Van der Kemp proceeded down the track as he said this, having, with the negro, again lifted the canoe on his shoulder.
A few minutes' walk brought them to the beach at the spot where Nigel had originally landed.

Here a quantity of cargo lay on the rocks ready to be placed in the canoe.

There were several small bags of pemmican, which Van der Kemp had learned to make while travelling on the prairies of North America among the Red Indians,--for this singular being seemed to have visited most parts of the habitable globe during his not yet very long life.