If we don't, my friends, we'll starve to death
in a very short time. And what's more, if we do not get out there
and put up houses to live in, we'll freeze to death when winter
comes along.
"According to calculations, winter is still five or six months
away. We won't get it, I dare say, before next April or May. All
you have to do is to take a look at all these trees around here to
realize that we are a long way from the tropics. It gets as cold as
blazes here in the dead of winter, I can tell you that. We've got
to build homes. We've got to build a camp,--not a flimsy, half-way
sort of camp, but a good, solid, substantial one, my friends. There
is what you might call a minority report in regard to the situation.
Captain Trigger asked me to speak for him and others who look at
it as I do. Mr. Landover, who is, I understand, one of the leading
bankers in the United States of America, contends that we are well
enough off as we are, on board the Doraine, where we've got cabins
and beds and shelter from the elements. He may be right. All I
have to say to him is this,--I don't believe I mentioned it at this
conference, Mr. Landover, simply because I'm one of those unhappy
individuals who always think of the brilliant things I might have
said when it's too late to say them,--all I have to say is this: if
Mr.
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