And I have lost my life over it, but another may succeed, and become the richest man in the world--the richest man in the world.

Only give it to no one, senor; go yourself!' "Then he began to wander again, and in an hour it was all over.
"God rest him! he died very quietly, and I buried him deep, with big boulders on his breast; so I do not think that the jackals can have dug him up.

And then I came away." "Ay, but the document ?" said Sir Henry, in a tone of deep interest.
"Yes, the document; what was in it ?" added the captain.
"Well, gentlemen, if you like I will tell you.

I have never showed it to anybody yet except to a drunken old Portuguese trader who translated it for me, and had forgotten all about it by the next morning.

The original rag is at my home in Durban, together with poor Dom Jose's translation, but I have the English rendering in my pocket-book, and a facsimile of the map, if it can be called a map.