plorin his payd bi tho guvcrmint. Yu nos purfickly weel tho col wither weel son cum and yu wat. The locker is getin lo, bot i lev yu samon in the teens, and shuger, and fresh lins and huks, and te, and tobacko and pips, and machers, and pickel botls in yer one irn chest, so thay wont git hurt or spoyld. I taks churge of tho Penguin mesilf, fur yu must be ded, and Skinee is furst mat, so ther no, and i hop yu hav gud luk.
"Sind, Captin Septimus Adolphus Robinson, fur himsilf and cru."
What was to be done? They would not be out of the channel yet. Perhaps we might overtake them by hurried marches with the animals.
"What could we do if we did overtake them?" asked Yondozi.
"The crew would obey me," I answered.
"I have a plan of the channel," ho said. It winds considerably, and we can take a good many short cuts without any danger of missing them. Perhaps it would be better for you and myself to push on at once with light packs, and leave tho others to camp hero till we return."
I agreed to this. The two strongest flanillas
