"But let's go over there and see what we can do.

If we can't trade with them, we might lay them under contribution by force of arms.

What say to beginning our career as conquerors by subjugating that island of Esquimaux, and levying a seal-tax?
That's the way our Saxon ancestors first entered England.

Has the sanction of history, you see,--as far down even as the ex-emperor Napoleon III." "You can't be in earnest," said Raed, suddenly looking round to him.
"I am," said Kit.

"Decidedly the easiest way (for us) to deal with them.