It isn't so very dirty in there.

Most of this I got on myself scraping down the burnt vines.

Here comes the captain.

He doesn't generally oversleep himself like this.

If he will go with me, we will explore that crack." When Captain Horn heard of the passage into the rock, he was much more interested than Ralph had expected him to be, and, without loss of time, he lighted a lantern and, with the boy behind him, set out to investigate it.