So long at least as we are taken for gods, our lives are safe.

But I would not say as much if they once became convinced, by our actions, that we are men like themselves." "But we cannot sit here, all our lives, among these idols," Reuben said.
"I agree with you there, Reuben; but patience does wonders, and I am not troubled in the least about ourselves.

Sooner or later, a way of escape will present itself; and when it does, be assured that we will use it.

Patience is all that we require, now.

It is of our poor shipmates that I am thinking." As night fell, great bonfires were lighted.