I been to camp already, chosen best canoe and finest men for rowers.

Chief--he called Fanny--so grateful that he come with them himself." "Indeed.

That is very kind of him, but I say, Jeekie, what are these fellows going to live on?
I can't stand what you call their 'favourite chop.'" "No, no, Major, that all right.

I tell them that when they travel with Little Bonsa, they must keep Lent like pious Roman Catholic family that live near Yarleys.

They catch plenty fish in river, and perhaps we shoot game, or rich 'potamus, which they like 'cause he fat." Evidently the Ogula chief, Fahni by name, not Fanny, as Jeekie called him, was a man of his word, for before the hour was up he appeared at the island in command of a large canoe manned by twelve splendid-looking savages.