You understand ?" "Tea, shug," repeated the young Indian, again grinning.
"We wantee git topside Nain.

You sabe, Nain ?" asked Cabot, pointing to his companion and himself, and then waving his hand comprehensively at the inland landscape.
"Tea, shug, more," answered the young savage, promptly, while his relatives regarded him admiringly as one who had mastered the art of conversing with foreigners.
"Perhaps he understands English better, or rather more, than he speaks it," suggested White.
"It is to be hoped that he does," replied Cabot.

"Even then he might not comprehend more than one word in a thousand.

But I tell you what.
Let's go and get our own breakfast, pack up what stuff we intend to carry, make the schooner as snug as possible, and come back to the beach.

Here we'll show these beggars what stuff we've brought, and give them to understand that it shall all be theirs when they get us to Nain.