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`` Make good many miles if nothing go wrong . '' `` You ca n't do any too well for me , '' answered Dick . `` I hope our expedition into the interior is both short and successful . '' At eight o'clock they were off . At first they had thought to go on horseback ; but this was abandoned by the advice of the native , who declared that horses would prove more of a drag than a help in many places . `` Horse canno ' climb tree bridge , '' he explained . `` No climb high rock , no go around bad hill .