When under the deep shadow of the bank Moses thrust the canoe close in, and his master, laying hold of the bushes, held fast and made a sign to him to land and reconnoitre.
Creeping forward to an opening in the bushes close at hand, Moses peeped through.

Then he turned and made facial signals of a kind so complicated that he could not be understood, as nothing was visible save the flashing of his teeth and eyes.

Van der Kemp therefore recalled him by a sign, and, stepping ashore, whispered Nigel to land.
[Illustration: DISCOVER A PIRATES' BIVOUAC .-- PAGE 164.] Another minute and the three travellers stood on the bank with their heads close together.
"Wait here for me," said the hermit, in the lowest possible whisper.

"I will go and see who they are." "Strange," said Nigel, when he was gone; "strange that in so short a time your master should twice have to stalk strangers in this way.
History repeats itself, they say.

It appears to do so rather fast in these regions! Does he not run a very great risk of being discovered ?" "Not de smallest," replied the negro, with as much emphasis as was possible in a whisper.