'Early in the evening Brown had received from Jim a folded piece of paper on which was written,"You get the clear road. Start as soon as your boat floats on the morning tide. Let your men be careful.The bushes on both sides of the creek and the stockade at the mouth are full of well-armed men.You would have no chance, but I don't believe you want bloodshed." Brown read it, tore the paper into small pieces, and, turning to Cornelius, who had brought it, said jeeringly, "Good-bye, my excellent friend." Cornelius had been in the fort, and had been sneaking around Jim's house during the afternoon.Jim chose him to carry the note because he could speak English, was known to Brown, and was not likely to be shot by some nervous mistake of one of the men as a Malay, approaching in the dusk,perhaps might have been.