Then we'll start them up the trail, and follow wherever they lead.

They are bound to fetch up somewhere.

Even if they don't take us where we want to go, we will have provisions enough to last us a week or more, and can surely find our way back." "I hate to leave them, for they might skip out while we were gone," objected White.
"That's so.

Well then, why not invite them on board?
They'll be safe there until we are ready to go.

Say, Arsenic, you all come with we all to shipee, sabe?
Get tea, sugar, plenty, eat heap, you understand ?" As Cabot said this he made motions for all the natives to enter the dinghy, and then pointed to the schooner.
It was evident that he was understood, and equally so that the woman declined his proposition, for she sat motionless, holding her baby, and with the younger children close by her side.