"Have you seen a beast like that before, Muata ?" "Any one would think," said Compton, "that nothing had happened-- that we had not been lost, and that he had not brought us into this mess." "Steady," said Mr.Hume, with a smile.
"Dick is right, sir.

If it had not been for him, I should have been dead.

I am a little bit excited now; but I will tell you all soon.
Well, Muata ?" "Wow!" exclaimed the chief, who had been talking with the river-man.
"One of these I have seen, and he also.

It was a great thing to kill two; of all things that walk they are the fiercest." "And I am very thirsty," said Compton.
"Their home is in the trees," continued Muata.
Venning nodded.

"Leo arboriensis." "Venningii," added Compton, as he took his lips from a water-bottle.
"And now we'll have breakfast, if you don't mind.".