How you catch 'm alive, ten boy, ten long knife, and Kwaque's head ?" The scattered paths of the different boys, where they broke back after the disastrous attempt to rush the Tahitian, soon led together.

They traced it to the Berande, which the runaways had crossed with the clear intention of burying themselves in the huge mangrove swamp that lay beyond.
"There is no use our going any farther," Sheldon said.

"Seelee will turn out his village and hunt them out of that.

They'll never get past him.
All we can do is to guard the coast and keep them from breaking back on the plantation and running amuck.

Ah, I thought so." Against the jungle gloom of the farther shore, coming from down stream, a small canoe glided.