human
Well, we've got to keep on, that's all, decided Mr. Durban.
gpt
We may find them most unexpectedly.
human
I'm sorry if I have taken you away from your work of gathering ivory, spoke Mr. Anderson.
gpt
Perhaps you had better let me go, and I'll see if I can't organize a band of friendly blacks, and search for the red dwarfs myself.
human
Not much! exclaimed Tom warmly.
gpt
I said we'd help rescue those missionaries, and we'll do it, too!
human
Of course, declared the old elephant hunter.
gpt
We have quite a lot of ivory and, while we need more to make it pay well, we can look for it after we rescue the missionaries as well as before. Perhaps there will be a lot of elephants in the pygmies' land.
human
I was only thinking that we can't go on forever in the airship. said Mr. Anderson.
gpt
You'll have to go back to civilization soon, won't you, Tom, to get gasolene?
human
No, we have enough for at least a month, answered the young inventor.
gpt
I took aboard an unusually large supply when we started.
human
What would happen if we ran out of it in the jungle?
gpt
Bless my pocketbook! What an unpleasant question! exclaimed Mr. Damon.
human
You are almost as cheerful, Ned, as was my friend Mr. Parker, the gloomy scientist, who was always predicting dire happenings.
gpt
Well, I was only wondering,
human
Oh, it would be all right, declared Tom.
gpt
We would simply become a balloon, and in time the wind would blow us to some white settlement. There is plenty of material for making the lifting gas.