"I had looked for something out of the ordinary, but assuredly for nothing so strange as this.

Truly you English are a wonderful people.

It is marvellous that one should come, all the way from beyond the black water, to seek for a father lost so many years ago.

Methinks that a blessing will surely alight upon such filial piety, and that you will find your father yet alive.
"Were it not for that, I should deem your search a useless one.
Thousands of Englishmen have been massacred during the last ten years.
Hundreds have died of disease and suffering.

Many have been poisoned.
Many officers have also been murdered, some of them here, but more in the hill forts; for it was there they were generally sent, when their deaths were determined upon.
"Still, he may live.