Captain, how about them picrates?
You remember those new Boer shells that blew a lot of us to kingdom come, and poisoned the rest ?" "Yes," answered Orme; "I remember; but now they have stronger stuffs--azo-imides, I think they call them--terrific new compounds of nitrogen.

We will inquire to-morrow, Sergeant." "Yes, Captain," he answered; "but the point is, who'll pay?
You can't buy hell-fire in bulk for nothing.

I calculate that, allowing for the purchase of the explosives and, say, fifty military rifles with ammunition and all other necessaries, not including camels, the outfit of this expedition can't come to less than L1,500." "I think I have that amount in gold," I answered, "of which the lady of the Abati gave me as much as I could carry in comfort." "If not," said Orme, "although I am a poor man now, I could find L500 or so in a pinch.

So don't let us bother about the money.

The question is--Are we all agreed that we will undertake this expedition and see it through to the end, whatever that may be ?" We answered that we were.
"Then has anybody anything more to say ?" "Yes," I replied; "I forgot to tell you that if we should ever get to Mur, none of you must make love to the Walda Nagasta.