The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.