Part 70 (1/2)
”Just you go and be sat upon all that tirus as much as it does your body”
”Ah, well, never mind You're quite safe now”
Tomati walked away to speak to one of his men
”Quite safe now, he says, Mas' Don Well, I don't feel it Hear what he said to the fust lufftenant; this was the worst part of the coast, and the people were ready to rob and murder and eat you?”
”I didn't hear all that, Jem,” said Don quietly ”I heard hi people; but that doesn't matter if they are kind to us”
”But that's what I' hi kind?”
”Ay, feared of the us too well Pot”
”Pot?”
”Yes, Pot Don't you understand?”
”No”
”Pot P--O--T, Pot”
”Well, of course, I know that; but what does it mean?”
”Why, they've sat upon you, Mas' Don, till your head won't work; that's what's the matter with you, my lad I mean treat us as if as chyce fat sheep”
”Nonsense, Jem!”
”Oh, is it? Well, you'll see”
”I hope not,” said Don, laughing
”Ah, you rin that day when it coht in soon after of the boats being busy taking soundings, and that night Don and Jeh up on the mountain side, and saw the sloop of ith her sails set, and looking golden in the setting sun, gliding sloay toward the north-east, careening slightly over before a brisk breeze, which grew stronger as they reached out farther beyond the shelter of the land; and in spite of hints froati, neither could be coaxed down till, just as it was growing dusk, Don rose and turned to his coetting away fro slaves aboard shi+p? Why, o' course”
Don shook his head
”I don't know,” he said, sadly ”We are here right away on the other side of the world a away back home”
”Oh, but we arn't tried yet, my lad”