"If we stay here, we shall be starved.

If we go into the town, we shall have our throats cut.
Which think you is the best ?" "I do not like either alternative," Ned said.

"See, inland there are many high mountains, and even close to the town there appear to be thickets and woods.

There are houses, here and there, and no doubt plantations.

It seems to me that if we get round to that side we may conceal ourselves; and it is hard, in a country like this, if we cannot, at any rate, find fruit enough to keep us for some time.