His engagement was not to terminate with our arrival at Stapi; he was to continue in my uncle's service for the whole period of his scientific researches, for the remuneration of three rixdales a week (about twelve shillings), but it was an express article of the covenant that his wages should be counted out to him every Saturday at six o'clock in the evening, which, according to him, was one indispensable part of the engagement.
Heti három rigsdalerért vállalta, hogy velünk marad, ameddig tudományos expedíciónkhoz szükségünk van rá. Csak azt kötötte ki, hogy bérét minden szombat este kézhez kapja: ez volt szerződése egyetlen feltétele.