If you want to preach, come and take a pick now, and preach when they're resting,' and he did and worked well too, and afterwards when we had to knock off, he preached, and Trent took the chair and made 'em all listen.

Well, when we got a bit inland we had the natives to deal with, and if you ask me I believe that's one reason Cathcart hated the whole thing so.

He's a beastly coward I think, and he told me once he'd never let off a revolver in his life.

Well, they tried to surprise us one night, but Trent was up himself watching, and I tell you we did give 'em beans.

Great, ugly-looking, black chaps they were.