"And if you all obey my orders, will the Yankee refuse?"
"I shouldn't think so; but suppose he should, what can be done?"
"He and I must fight it out, then."
The three Englishmen looked at Hatteras, but said nothing. Then the Doctor asked how they were to go.
"By the coast, as far as possible," was the reply.
"But what if we find open water, as is likely enough?"
"Well, we'll go across it."
"But we have no boat."
Hatteras did not answer, and looked embarrassed.
"Perhaps," suggested Bell, "we might make a ship out of some of the planks of the Porpoise."