'I mean--you spoke as if you meant that class of work was above your own.' 'Oh, there's no basis of comparison.' Clarice seized the opportunity, and inquired after the prospects of his work in Matanga.
'The place should do,' said Drake.

'The land's good, there's a river running through, and I have got picked men to settle on it; all English, that's the point.

But you said generous.

I don't see.' Clarice switched him on the subject of English colonisation.

'It's necessary to have Englishmen to start it?
Why ?' 'Oh, well,' said Drake.