Mr.Cato, the port officer at Durban, mentioned to me that the _Crocodile_ was expected to call there within the next fortnight to take in stores after a slave-hunting cruise down the coast.

Now it would be odd if she chanced to meet the _Maria_ and asked to have a look at her cargo, wouldn't it ?" "Not at all, Quatermain, for unless one or the other of them changes her course that is just what she must do within the next hour or so, and I jolly well hope she will.

I haven't forgiven that beast, Delgado, the trick he tried to play on us by slipping away with our goods, to say nothing of those poor devils of slaves.

Pass the coffee, will you ?" For the next ten minutes we ate in silence, for Stephen had an excellent appetite and was hungry after his morning climb.
Just as we finished our meal Hassan appeared, looking even more villainous than he had done the previous day.

I saw also that he was in a truculent mood, induced perhaps by the headache from which he was evidently suffering as a result of his potations.