"I'm afraid you'll get to some village and then stop, for the blacks won't let you go on; but I tell you what: I shall be always trading backwards and forwards for the next two years, and I shall coast about looking up fresh places so as to be handy if you want a bit of help; and I can't say fairer than that, can I, doctor ?" "If you will keep about the coast all you can," said the doctor, "and be ready, should we want them, to supply us with powder and odds and ends to replenish our stores, you will be doing us inestimable service.
Whenever we go to a coast village we shall leave some sign of our having been there--a few words chalked on a tree, or a hut, something to tell you that English people have passed that way." "All right, and I shall do something of the kind," said the captain.
"And, look here, I should make this village a sort of randy-voo if I was you, for you'll always be safe with these people." "Yes; this shall be headquarters," said the doctor.

"Eh, Joe ?" I nodded.
"And now there's one more thing," said the captain.

"Six-foot Rule; I suppose I'm to take him back ?" "If you mean me," drawled Jack Penny, entering the hut with Gyp, "no, you mustn't take him back, for I ain't going.

If Joe Carstairs don't want me, I don't want him.

The country's as free for one as t'other, and I'm going to have a look round along with Gyp." "But really, my dear fellow," said the doctor, "I think you had better give up this idea." "Didn't know you could tell what's best here," said Jack stoutly.
"'Tain't a physicky thing." "But it will be dangerous, Jack.