“Two or three thousand miles.”
“And English war-ships watch the Persian Gulf and all the seas from India to Aden?”
King nodded.
“Have the English any ships that dive under water?”
He nodded again.
“In these waters?”
“I think not. I'm not sure, but I think not.”
“The grenades you have seen, and the rifles and cartridges were sent by the Germans to Dar es Salaam, to suppress a rising of African natives. Does it begin to grow clear to you, my friend?”
He smiled as well as nodded this time.
“Muhammad Anim used to wait with a hundred women at a certain place on the seashore. What he found on the beach there he made the women carry on their heads to Khinjan. And by the time he had hidden what he found and returned from Khinjan to the beach, there were more things to find and bring. So they worked, he and the Germans, for I know not how long--with the English watching the seas as on land lean wolves comb the valleys.