It's very rocky over there and there's no place for a landing from the sea.

Everything is brought overland to Aratat and placed in the vaults of the bank.

Four times a year the rubies and sapphires are shipped to the brokers in London and Paris and Vienna.

It's quite a neat and regular arrangement, sir." "But I should think the confounded natives would steal everything they got their hands on." "What would be the use, sir?
They couldn't dispose of a single gem on the island, and nothing is taken away from here except in the company's chests.

Besides, my lord, these people are not thieves.