It is enough, when together, to surprise a village; and it is not too many, travelling in twos and threes, to attract attention.

Things always go on better, too, after a dispersal.

Many who are discontented, or who want to command a band of their own, break off, and one starts fresh, with just the men one likes best to keep." "We had begun to give you up, captain," one of the men said, as he joined the other party.

"We have been here six days." "We travelled but slowly, at first, and it is only the last two days we have really made fair journeys; but there was no reason for any great haste.

The world is all our own, and, at any rate, as long as we were in the forest, there was no fear of wanting food.
"So I see some of our comrades have left us." "We can do very well without them, captain.