Will my friend go by that ?" "I am grateful," answered the hermit, "but I need no help--save some provisions, for I have my little canoe, which will suffice." As this colloquy was conducted in the native tongue it was unintelligible to Nigel, but after the interview with the chief the hermit explained matters to him, and bade Moses get ready for a start several hours before dawn.
"You see we must do the first part of our trip in the dark, for Baderoon has a keen eye and ear.

Then we will land and sleep all day where the sharpest eye will fail to find us--and, luckily, pirates have been denied the power of scenting out their foes.

When night comes we will start again and get out of sight of land before the next dawn." "Mine frond," said the professor, turning his moon-like goggles full on the hermit.

"I vill go viz you." "I should be only too happy to have your company," returned the hermit, "but my canoe cannot by any contrivance be made to hold more than three." "Zat is no matter to me," rejoined Verkimier; "you forget zee trader's boat.

I vill go in zat to Sumatra.