As to the means of getting out as far as Sinnamary, at any rate, they had no anxiety on that score, for Captain Gayford, when he once heard the object of their expedition, would be sure to take them on one of his ships, and possibly afford them much valuable information as to their further route into the bargain.
Before the council broke up one solemn and momentous step was taken.
"What shall we call our island ?" asked Bowler dramatically, placing his finger on the map and looking round on his fellow-adventurers.
There was a pause, and for a moment the founders of the new empire were wrapped in silent thought.

At last Gayford said-- "I know--just the thing." "What?
What?
What ?" inquired three voices.
"New Swishford." It is hardly needful to add that the name was there and then duly appended to the island on the chart in red ink, which done, the company separated to sleep, and heard all night long in their dreams the crack of Braintree's "wifle" echoing among the waving woods and fertile valleys of New Swishford..