“The Paramakaboo.”
“Thanks. Well, as I understood you, it reaches the sea by several channels. Is our property on the main stream?”
“The streams are all about the same size, so far as I was able to learn.”
“How far back from the coast are the mountains?”
“You can hardly call them mountains. They are reasonably high hills, and I estimate the distance to be from twenty-five to thirty miles. Our property is twelve miles up the river.”
“A steamer drawing the depth of the Rajah could get up there you think?”
“Oh, yes, and could lay alongside the rocks in front of the gold field without needing a wharf of any sort.”
“If I took the yacht up another channel, would she be out of sight of any one stationed on our property?”
“The delta is rather flat for a few miles back from the coast, but if you go upstream for fifteen miles or so, there are plenty of hills that would conceal even a line of battle-ship, but any one on your property could see her sailing up the stream while she was in low-lying country.”
“That doesn’t matter. I intend to get there before our friends do, so there will be no trouble on that score.”