"That's the spirit I like to see," he answered. "We shall do, depend
upon it. I've no great fancy for being caught by the Spaniards and
clapped into prison; and they are certain to be looking for us all along
the western coast. We shall have to go rather a roundabout way, but
that can't be helped. Now, from what I hear, the Indians have pretty
well cleared the country of the white men to the south of this, so we
shall have little to fear from the Spaniards; and as you say the Indians
are your friends, if we fall in with them, it is to be hoped they will
treat us well. We can't expect, you know, to get through the world
without running through a little danger now and then."