Some uneasiness, now, as the others wondered whether they would be expected to cut off pieces of themselves. But Nyazi withdrew from the folds of his cloak a red Koran, and he and Nasr al-Ghuráb and the Turk from Arlanc’s galley gathered around it and said holy words in Arabic, and for good measure, announced that they would make the haj if they survived. Likewise Yevgeny, Surendranath, and the Nubian swore fearsome oaths to their respective gods. Mr. Foot, who had been lurking round the edges of the fire-light looking vaguely indignant, announced that it would be super-fluous for him to swear loyalty since "the whole enterprise" had been his idea (apparently referring to the ill-starred cowrie shell voyage of many years back) and that in any case it "would never do" to show anything other than loyalty to his comrades and that it was "bizarre" and "shocking" and "unseemly" and "inconceivable" for Jack to even suggest that he, Mr. Foot, would do otherwise.