"This is my weapon." "We are not man-hunters," said Mr.Hume.

"We will, however, hang about till evening, so that they may think we have no suspicions, and then in the dusk we will push on." "Wow!" said the chief.

"My plan would be to land above, to creep down and take them unprepared." "And the canoes from the other side would steal across and cut you off.

No; we will leave them." "The canoes from the other side," said Compton, starting up.

"I rather think I saw one shoot into that island--the big one with the palm-tree in the centre." "All right," said the hunter, quickly.