As soon as they see him they surrender." "I make a specialty of cooks," Pee-wee said.

"Our cook gives me everything I want.

And anyway we couldn't starve because scouts can't starve; they can eat roots and herbs and things; I'll show you.

Do you like chocolate marshmallows?
Even scouts can eat moss to keep from starving.

And they can't get lost either--I'll show you how." Pee-wee decided to take one of the boys with him to prove to his mother that the island was inhabited, and two other boys started back up the river in the other canoe.