"I agree with you that it would be a disadvantage to go as a soldier," Dick said, after a pause; "but what disguise would you recommend us to choose ?" "That I must think over.

You both look too straight and active to be employed as the assistants of a trader, or I could have got some of my friends to take you in that capacity.

The best disguise will be a gayer attire, such as would be worn by the retainers of some of the chiefs; and were it not that, if questioned, you could not say who was your employer, that is what I should recommend." "I saw a number of men working at a battery they are erecting by the river side.

Could we not take service there until something better presents itself ?" "I should not advise that," the native replied, "for the work is very hard, and the pay poor.

Indeed, most of those employed on it are men driven in from the country round and forced to labour, getting only enough pay to furnish them with the poorest food.