"We can reach the water with a few tether ropes." "To get the water--yes, my lad," said the sergeant, with a queer screwing up of his face; "but I was thinking about the gold." "Oh, we've no time to think of gold," said Denham shortly.

"But I say, Val, isn't this all a mistake?
Who could have built such a place and worked for gold--making a mine like this ?" "I don't know," I said, "unless it was the ancient traders who used to go to Cornwall in their ships to get tin." "What! the Phoenicians ?" said Denham.
"Yes," I said.

"They were big builders too.

They built Tyre and Sidon." "Val," cried my companion, slapping me on the shoulder, "you've hit it right on the head.

They were the builders.