"You obtain them wherever you may go to."
"Yes, any part of the world will furnish them in some shape or other."
"When you send ashore, will you permit me to accompany the boat's crew?" said Jeffery.
"Certainly; but the natives of this country are violent and intractable, and should you get into any row with them, there is every probability of your being captured, or some bodily injury done you."
"But I will take care to avoid all that."
"Very well, colonel, you shall be welcome to go."
"I must beg the same permission," said Mr. Thornhill, "for I should much like to see the country, as well as to have some acquaintance with the natives themselves."
"By no means trust yourself alone with them," said the captain, "for if you live you will have cause to repent it—depend upon what I say."
"I will," said Thornhill; "I will go nowhere but where the boat's company goes."
"You will be safe then."