I coaxed; I threatened; I persuaded; but it was all in vain.

I soon found he was a regular millstone round my neck--particularly when we were on the "walk-about." He would suddenly take it into his head to sit down for hours at a stretch, and nothing would induce him to move until he did so of his own accord.
Curiously enough, Bruno became very greatly attached to him, and was his constant companion.

Of this I was extremely glad, because it relieved me of much anxiety.

You will understand what I mean when I tell you that, in spite of all our endeavours, our mysterious companion would go off by himself away from our track; and at such times were it not for Bruno--whom he would follow anywhere--we would often have had much trouble in bringing him back again.

Or he might have been speared before a strange tribe could have discovered his "sacred" (idiotic) condition.
At length we reached a large lagoon, on the shores of which we stayed for about two years.