I used to be t'ink, t'inkin' ob nights--when I's tired ob countin' my fingers an' toes--But I couldn't make nuffin' ob it.

_Now_ I knows! It's 'fraid I am ob hurtin' his feelin's." In the excess of his satisfaction at the solution of this long-standing puzzle, Moses threw back his head, shut his eyes, opened his enormous mouth and chuckled.
By the time he had reversed this process they were sufficiently near to Krakatoa to distinguish all its features clearly, and the negro began to point out to Nigel its various localities.

There were three prominent peaks on it, he said, named respectively, Perboewatan about 400 feet high, at the northern end of the island; Danan, near the centre, 1500 feet; and Rakata, at the southern end, over 2600 feet.

It was high up on the sides of the last cone that the residence of the hermit was situated.
"And you won't tell me your master's name ?" said Nigel.
Moses shook his woolly head.

"No, sar, no.