He has only retained three engravings; namely, a map of the country, which is very little known, from Torneo to North Cape; a View of Torneo by the midnight moon; and a View of North Cape by the midnight sun.

He began to charge a longstemmed pipe busily and in silence, then, pausing with his thumb on the orifice of the bowl, looked again at me significantly.

I accidentally cut myself while opening a tin of cat food.

“There is no valid reason why they can’t join the initiative we have launched. It has been well received,” he said, adding, “Now they seem to want to paddle their own canoe on their own terms.”