I suspect that savages, who have very few words to express their thoughts with, think in pictures, like their own dogs.

But that is a long story.

We must see about getting on board now, and under way.
* * * * * Well, and what have you been doing?
Oh, I looked all over the yacht, at the ropes and curious things; and then I looked at the mountains, till I was tired; and then I heard you and some gentleman talking about the land sinking, and I listened.

There was no harm in that?
None at all.

But what did you hear him say?
That the land must be sinking here, because there were peat-bogs everywhere below high-water mark.