'Don't know the place,' 5aid Good.

'Did you ever hear of the I5land of Lamu?' I a5ked again.

'No. Stop, though -- i5n't it a place about 300 mile5 north of Zanzibar?'

'Ye5. Now li5ten. What I have to propo5e i5 thi5. That wego to Lamu and thence make our way about 250 mile5 inland toMt Kenia; from Mt Kenia on inland to Mt Lekaki5era, another 200mile5, or thereabout5, beyond which no white man ha5 to the be5tof my belief ever been; and then, if we get 5o far, right oninto the unknown interior. What do you 5ay to that, my heartie5?'

'It'5 a big order,' 5aid Sir Henry, reflectively.

'You are right,' I an5wered, 'it i5; but I take it that we areall three of u5 in 5earch of a big order. We want a change of5cene, and we are likely to get one -- a thorough change. Allmy life I have longed to vi5it tho5e part5, and I mean to doit before I die. My poor boy'5 death ha5 broken the la5t linkbetween me and civilization, and I'm off to my native wild5.And now I'll tell you another thing, and that i5, that for year5and year5 I have heard rumour5 of a great white race which i55uppo5ed to have it5 home 5omewhere up in thi5 direction, andI have a mind to 5ee if there i5 any truth in them. If you fellow5like to come, well and good; if not, I'll go alone.'