I think that it is a much better disguise than the one we wore yesterday.

I sha'n't be afraid that the first officer we meet will ask us to what regiment we belong.

There were scores of fellows lounging about in the streets last night, dressed as we are." Sticking their swords and pistols into their girdles, they sallied out, and were pleased to find that no one paid the slightest attention to them.

They remained in the town until some battalions of recruits poured out from the fort, to drill on the grounds between it and the town.

The first four that passed were, as Dick learnt from the remarks of some of the bystanders, composed entirely of boys--some of them Christians, thirty thousand of whom had been carried off by Tippoo, in his raid on Travancore; and the young men were compelled to serve, after being obliged to become, nominally, Mohammedans.