Once down on the plain, we could renew our disguise as traders, and, however hotly they scoured the country, pass without suspicion through them.
"I think that there will be more chance, in that way, than in going in as traders; for we should, in that case, have little chance of walking about, still less of questioning anyone.

However, it is worth trying that first.

We can always fall back upon the other, if it fails.

We might, on our first visit, obtain indications that would be very useful to us on our second.".