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"
No
thank
you
,
"
says
he
;
"
I
should
much
prefer
not
to
go
aboard
.
I
have
only
a
few
words
to
say
to
you
,
and
they
can
very
well
be
said
where
we
are
.
I
beg
you
not
to
imagine
that
I
am
in
any
way
indebted
to
you
for
making
this
journey
.
I
would
have
you
to
understand
that
it
is
a
matter
of
perfect
indifference
to
me
,
and
I
refuse
to
entertain
the
most
remote
sense
of
personal
obligation
.
Truth
is
truth
,
and
nothing
which
you
can
report
can
affect
it
in
any
way
,
though
it
may
excite
the
emotions
and
allay
the
curiosity
of
a
number
of
very
ineffectual
people
.
My
directions
for
your
instruction
and
guidance
are
in
this
sealed
envelope
.
You
will
open
it
when
you
reach
a
town
upon
the
Amazon
which
is
called
Manaos
,
but
not
until
the
date
and
hour
which
is
marked
upon
the
outside
.
Have
I
made
myself
clear
?
I
leave
the
strict
observance
of
my
conditions
entirely
to
your
honor
.
No
,
Mr.
Malone
,
I
will
place
no
restriction
upon
your
correspondence
,
since
the
ventilation
of
the
facts
is
the
object
of
your
journey
;
but
I
demand
that
you
shall
give
no
particulars
as
to
your
exact
destination
,
and
that
nothing
be
actually
published
until
your
return
.
Good-bye
,
sir
.
You
have
done
something
to
mitigate
my
feelings
for
the
loathsome
profession
to
which
you
unhappily
belong
.
Good-bye
,
Lord
John
.
Science
is
,
as
I
understand
,
a
sealed
book
to
you
;
but
you
may
congratulate
yourself
upon
the
hunting-field
which
awaits
you
.
You
will
,
no
doubt
,
have
the
opportunity
of
describing
in
the
Field
how
you
brought
down
the
rocketing
dimorphodon
.
And
good-bye
to
you
also
,
Professor
Summerlee
.
If
you
are
still
capable
of
self-improvement
,
of
which
I
am
frankly
unconvinced
,
you
will
surely
return
to
London
a
wiser
man
.
"
So
he
turned
upon
his
heel
,
and
a
minute
later
from
the
deck
I
could
see
his
short
,
squat
figure
bobbing
about
in
the
distance
as
he
made
his
way
back
to
his
train
.
Well
,
we
are
well
down
Channel
now
.
There
's
the
last
bell
for
letters
,
and
it
's
good-bye
to
the
pilot
.
We
'll
be
"
down
,
hull-down
,
on
the
old
trail
"
from
now
on
.
God
bless
all
we
leave
behind
us
,
and
send
us
safely
back
.
I
will
not
bore
those
whom
this
narrative
may
reach
by
an
account
of
our
luxurious
voyage
upon
the
Booth
liner
,
nor
will
I
tell
of
our
week
's
stay
at
Para
(
save
that
I
should
wish
to
acknowledge
the
great
kindness
of
the
Pereira
da
Pinta
Company
in
helping
us
to
get
together
our
equipment
)
.
I
will
also
allude
very
briefly
to
our
river
journey
,
up
a
wide
,
slow-moving
,
clay-tinted
stream
,
in
a
steamer
which
was
little
smaller
than
that
which
had
carried
us
across
the
Atlantic
.
Eventually
we
found
ourselves
through
the
narrows
of
Obidos
and
reached
the
town
of
Manaos
.
Here
we
were
rescued
from
the
limited
attractions
of
the
local
inn
by
Mr.
Shortman
,
the
representative
of
the
British
and
Brazilian
Trading
Company
.
In
his
hospital
Fazenda
we
spent
our
time
until
the
day
when
we
were
empowered
to
open
the
letter
of
instructions
given
to
us
by
Professor
Challenger
.
Before
I
reach
the
surprising
events
of
that
date
I
would
desire
to
give
a
clearer
sketch
of
my
comrades
in
this
enterprise
,
and
of
the
associates
whom
we
had
already
gathered
together
in
South
America
.
I
speak
freely
,
and
I
leave
the
use
of
my
material
to
your
own
discretion
,
Mr.
McArdle
,
since
it
is
through
your
hands
that
this
report
must
pass
before
it
reaches
the
world
.
The
scientific
attainments
of
Professor
Summerlee
are
too
well
known
for
me
to
trouble
to
recapitulate
them
.
He
is
better
equipped
for
a
rough
expedition
of
this
sort
than
one
would
imagine
at
first
sight
.
His
tall
,
gaunt
,
stringy
figure
is
insensible
to
fatigue
,
and
his
dry
,
half-sarcastic
,
and
often
wholly
unsympathetic
manner
is
uninfluenced
by
any
change
in
his
surroundings
.
Though
in
his
sixty-sixth
year
,
I
have
never
heard
him
express
any
dissatisfaction
at
the
occasional
hardships
which
we
have
had
to
encounter
.
I
had
regarded
his
presence
as
an
encumbrance
to
the
expedition
,
but
,
as
a
matter
of
fact
,
I
am
now
well
convinced
that
his
power
of
endurance
is
as
great
as
my
own
.
In
temper
he
is
naturally
acid
and
sceptical
.
From
the
beginning
he
has
never
concealed
his
belief
that
Professor
Challenger
is
an
absolute
fraud
,
that
we
are
all
embarked
upon
an
absurd
wild-goose
chase
and
that
we
are
likely
to
reap
nothing
but
disappointment
and
danger
in
South
America
,
and
corresponding
ridicule
in
England
.
Such
are
the
views
which
,
with
much
passionate
distortion
of
his
thin
features
and
wagging
of
his
thin
,
goat-like
beard
,
he
poured
into
our
ears
all
the
way
from
Southampton
to
Manaos
.
Since
landing
from
the
boat
he
has
obtained
some
consolation
from
the
beauty
and
variety
of
the
insect
and
bird
life
around
him
,
for
he
is
absolutely
whole-hearted
in
his
devotion
to
science
.
He
spends
his
days
flitting
through
the
woods
with
his
shot-gun
and
his
butterfly-net
,
and
his
evenings
in
mounting
the
many
specimens
he
has
acquired
.
Among
his
minor
peculiarities
are
that
he
is
careless
as
to
his
attire
,
unclean
in
his
person
,
exceedingly
absent-minded
in
his
habits
,
and
addicted
to
smoking
a
short
briar
pipe
,
which
is
seldom
out
of
his
mouth
.
He
has
been
upon
several
scientific
expeditions
in
his
youth
(
he
was
with
Robertson
in
Papua
)
,
and
the
life
of
the
camp
and
the
canoe
is
nothing
fresh
to
him
.
Lord
John
Roxton
has
some
points
in
common
with
Professor
Summerlee
,
and
others
in
which
they
are
the
very
antithesis
to
each
other
.
He
is
twenty
years
younger
,
but
has
something
of
the
same
spare
,
scraggy
physique
.
As
to
his
appearance
,
I
have
,
as
I
recollect
,
described
it
in
that
portion
of
my
narrative
which
I
have
left
behind
me
in
London
.
He
is
exceedingly
neat
and
prim
in
his
ways
,
dresses
always
with
great
care
in
white
drill
suits
and
high
brown
mosquito-boots
,
and
shaves
at
least
once
a
day
.
Like
most
men
of
action
,
he
is
laconic
in
speech
,
and
sinks
readily
into
his
own
thoughts
,
but
he
is
always
quick
to
answer
a
question
or
join
in
a
conversation
,
talking
in
a
queer
,
jerky
,
half-humorous
fashion
.
His
knowledge
of
the
world
,
and
very
especially
of
South
America
,
is
surprising
,
and
he
has
a
whole-hearted
belief
in
the
possibilities
of
our
journey
which
is
not
to
be
dashed
by
the
sneers
of
Professor
Summerlee
.
He
has
a
gentle
voice
and
a
quiet
manner
,
but
behind
his
twinkling
blue
eyes
there
lurks
a
capacity
for
furious
wrath
and
implacable
resolution
,
the
more
dangerous
because
they
are
held
in
leash
.
He
spoke
little
of
his
own
exploits
in
Brazil
and
Peru
,
but
it
was
a
revelation
to
me
to
find
the
excitement
which
was
caused
by
his
presence
among
the
riverine
natives
,
who
looked
upon
him
as
their
champion
and
protector
.
The
exploits
of
the
Red
Chief
,
as
they
called
him
,
had
become
legends
among
them
,
but
the
real
facts
,
as
far
as
I
could
learn
them
,
were
amazing
enough
.
These
were
that
Lord
John
had
found
himself
some
years
before
in
that
no-man
's
-
land
which
is
formed
by
the
half-defined
frontiers
between
Peru
,
Brazil
,
and
Columbia
.
In
this
great
district
the
wild
rubber
tree
flourishes
,
and
has
become
,
as
in
the
Congo
,
a
curse
to
the
natives
which
can
only
be
compared
to
their
forced
labor
under
the
Spaniards
upon
the
old
silver
mines
of
Darien
.
A
handful
of
villainous
half-breeds
dominated
the
country
,
armed
such
Indians
as
would
support
them
,
and
turned
the
rest
into
slaves
,
terrorizing
them
with
the
most
inhuman
tortures
in
order
to
force
them
to
gather
the
india-rubber
,
which
was
then
floated
down
the
river
to
Para
.
Lord
John
Roxton
expostulated
on
behalf
of
the
wretched
victims
,
and
received
nothing
but
threats
and
insults
for
his
pains
.
He
then
formally
declared
war
against
Pedro
Lopez
,
the
leader
of
the
slave-drivers
,
enrolled
a
band
of
runaway
slaves
in
his
service
,
armed
them
,
and
conducted
a
campaign
,
which
ended
by
his
killing
with
his
own
hands
the
notorious
half-breed
and
breaking
down
the
system
which
he
represented
.
No
wonder
that
the
ginger-headed
man
with
the
silky
voice
and
the
free
and
easy
manners
was
now
looked
upon
with
deep
interest
upon
the
banks
of
the
great
South
American
river
,
though
the
feelings
he
inspired
were
naturally
mixed
,
since
the
gratitude
of
the
natives
was
equaled
by
the
resentment
of
those
who
desired
to
exploit
them
.
