The weather is pleasant now, and we might very well put in a few weeks with the blacks.

That last haul we made of traders' goods--cottons, and beads, and trumperies for the gins, and brass rings and such like for the men--will put them in the best of humours.

You may be sure there will be a hot chase after us, after this business; and I should propose that we try our luck down south, for a bit." "I agree with you," one of the others said.

"We have had a very good spell here, for the last ten months; and it don't do to tempt luck too long.

That losing three of our number, last week, looked as if it was going to turn." "What's it matter ?" the captain laughed.