If the forest gives you up, search for this path and follow it; and if I be alive, I would go to that place in the clouds.

Allah be with you." "And with you." The Okapi was driven into the bank, and the old man stepped ashore.
"See that you keep your counsel, my friend," Said Mr.Hume.

"We want no prowlers about our camp." They turned the Okapi down-stream again, and considered where they should hide her, for that was a thing to be done with the utmost care.

It was, however, very difficult to decide; for in the screen of the wood, all along the banks, every spot seemed the same, and there were many reasons against tying up in some dark retreat and leaving the precious craft to its fate, at the mercy of the rising or falling water, and at the risk of discovery by prowling fishermen.
"We must get her aground," said Mr.Hume; and they poked into the banks here and there in search of a likely landing, ultimately finding a spot where a huge tree had fallen bodily into the river, dragging away with its roots a mass of earth.

They marked the place, and returned to the clearing to camp for the night.