If that gentleman did arrive with three hundred armed men--eh ?" "Then, my boy," I answered, "in this way or in that we shall thrash him.
I don't often have an inspiration, but I've got one now, and it is to the effect that Mr.Hassan has not very long to live and that we shall be intimately connected with his end.

Wait till you have seen a slave caravan and you will understand my feelings.

Also I know these gentry.
That little prophecy of ours will get upon his nerves and give him a foretaste of things.

Hans, go and set this letter in that cleft stick.
The postman will call for it before long." As it happened, within a few days we did see a slave caravan, some of the merchandise of the estimable Hassan.
We had been making good progress through a beautiful and healthy country, steering almost due west, or rather a little to the north of west.

The land was undulating and rich, well-watered and only bush-clad in the neighbourhood of the streams, the higher ground being open, of a park-like character, and dotted here and there with trees.