To their amazement he addressed Roger in halting, but clear English.
“You come far.”
“Yes, sir,” Tip spoke first.
“You come for what?”
Tip hesitated.
Roger came forward.
“This man and I are with a scientific expedition.”
“Have you secured permission to enter our land?”
“I suppose so,” Roger, himself, was not too certain about the details of that official permit that Doctor Ryder said he had gotten.
“You understand something of science?”