"Of course. He knows the way everywhere. He'd take us right up the little rivers that branch off—I mean, where no one goes. There's no knowing what we may find up there."
"No. Sree says there are plenty of wonders; I've often longed to go."
"Then we'll go now. We ought to have done so before. I should like to go for a week," said Harry.
"I don't think our people would like us to go for so long."
"Oh, I don't know. Let's try. I tell you what; let's have a bigger boat, so that we can sleep on board, and a man to cook for us. Then we can live comfortably for a few days. Why, we should get a wonderful lot of things for the museum."
"It would be very nice," said Phra thoughtfully.
"Nice? It would be grand. Here, I shall go home and speak to my father at once."
"Then I'll ask mine."
"He'll say yes, because he'll think he can trust us. I say, Phra, I wish we had thought of this before."
The boys separated, and Harry did not feel the heat as he hurried home to lay his plans before his father.