I would bury them, Sahib, for surely they could not be entrusted even to the most faithful messengers, in times like these.

But though, if you like, I will hide them here, I think it would be far safer for you to take them across the river, and bury them in a wood, marking well the trees, that you may know the place again; for although methinks Tippoo's agents believe that they have squeezed the last rupee from me, one can never tell--I might again be tortured, and none can say that they are brave enough to bear the agonies that Tippoo's executioners inflict.
"I will bury them for tonight; but I pray you give me notice the first time you cross the river.

I will be at the other side of the ford, with the jewels hidden in a sack on an ass.

This I will drive forward, when I see you crossing the ford.

You will follow me, till I enter a wood.