For ten days we were beating about, trusting to luck, and on the eleventh we were picked up by a trader which was going from Singapore to Jiddah with a cargo of Malay pilgrims.

They were a rum crowd, and Tonga and I soon managed to settle down among them.

They had one very good quality: they let you alone and asked no questions.
"Well, if I were to tell you all the adventures that my little chum and I went through, you would not thank me, for I would have you here until the sun was shining.

Here and there we drifted about the world, something always turning up to keep us from London.

All the time, however, I never lost sight of my purpose.