Of course, I did not know that you were a relation of Mr.Brooke, or I should have mentioned to him that you were likely to come." "I should like to get off as soon as possible," Tom Pearson said; "for by the time that I get back to Ramgur, the rest of the cattle will be in readiness for me." "I will write you an order for four large boats, at once.

If you had come three weeks sooner, you might have been kept waiting some days; but such a number of native craft have, of late, come down the rivers that we are enabled to get sufficient for our work." The officer gave him a note to the one in charge of the landing arrangements.
"It is lucky that you have come just at this moment," the latter said.

"We have just made our last trip with the baggage of the 47th, and I have six boats disengaged.

You may as well take them all." The craft in question were some of those that had been captured--unwieldy craft, that took fish and salt up the river.
They were almost as large as the dhows in which the cattle had been brought down, but drew very much less water.

They were towed off to the dhows, one by one, by two captured war canoes, each having thirty rowers.