CHAPTER TWENTY TWO.
ACROSS COUNTRY.
In undertaking the journey across Borneo, Captain Redwood knew there would be many difficulties to encounter, as well as dangers.

There was first the great distance, which could not be much less than two hundred and fifty miles, even if they should succeed in making it in a straight line--as the crow flies.

But, no doubt, obstructions would present themselves along the route to cause many a detour.

Still this was an obstacle which time would overcome.

At the rate of ten miles a day, it would be conquered in a month; and if two months should have to be spent, it would not be a very formidable hardship, considering that it was a journey overtaken to carry them through a savage wilderness, and restore them to civilisation--nay, almost to life.
That it was to be made on foot did not dismay them, they had quite recovered from the effects of their sea-suffering, as also from the poisonous breath of the upas, and felt strong enough to undertake any great feat of pedestrianism.