I should take a hundred empty sacks.

These you would fill with earth when you get near the pool, and form a battery with them behind the screen of bushes; then, when you are ready, you will cut down the bushes and open fire." "I don't see why that should not succeed, sir.

Of course the most difficult part of the operation is dragging the guns.

These native paths are only broad enough for men in single file." "Yes, that is the difficulty.

We could not employ axes to cut down the trees, and to saw them down would be an interminable work.