human
Dem be gone,
gpt
Now, don't look so dismal, Mak, cried Peterkin, slapping the man on the shoulder.
human
You may depend upon it, we will hunt her up somehow or other. Only let us keep stout hearts, and we can do anything.
gpt
Very easily said, Master Peterkin, observed Jack;
human
Collect our scattered men; go back to the village; have a palaver with King Jambai and his chiefs; get up a pursuit, and run the foxes to earth.
gpt
And suppose, said Jack,
human
It is very easy to suppose all manner of difficulties, retorted Peterkin.
gpt
If you have a better plan, out with it.
human
I have no better plan, but I have a slight addition to make to yours, which is, that when we collect a few of our men, I shall send them out to every point of the compass, to make tracks like the spokes of a wheel, of which the village shall be the centre; and by that means we shall be pretty certain to get information ere long as to the whereabouts of our fugitives. So now let us be up and doing; time is precious to-night.