What I should desire, above all things, is to get service of some kind in the Palace." After six days' travel, they saw the walls of Seringapatam.

Dick had made many inquiries, at the last halting place, as to the position of the fords on that side of the town; and learned that only those leading to the fort were guarded.

The ford opposite the town was freely open to traffic, and could be crossed without question by country people, although a watch was kept to see that none of the very numerous prisoners escaped by it.
It was here, therefore, that they crossed the river, the water being little more than knee deep.

No questions were asked by the guard as they passed, their appearance differing in no way from that of the peasants of the neighbourhood.
After a quarter of a mile's walk they entered the town.

It was open, and undefended by a wall.