All indeed on board the ship have wrought nobly, for their own safety and for the honor of her majesty the Queen.

But you have gone beyond this; and have, by your journey across the continent, brought fame and credit to the country.

It is right that men who discover strange lands into which, some day, the power of Christianity and civilization may enter, should receive honor and credit of their countrymen.

Of those who seek to do these things many perish, and those who survive should be held in honor" Most of all delighted, at the success and honor which had befallen Ned, were his three friends.

Two of them considered that they owed their lives to him.