The rest were distributed among the minor passes.
Dick remained with his uncle, who established himself in a village, seven miles up the pass.

He was well satisfied with the arrangement, for he was anxious to learn to go about among the hills as a spy, and was much more likely to get leave from his uncle to do so, than he would have been from any of the officers of the troop, who would not have ventured to allow the Rajah's nephew to run into danger.
In the second place, his especial friend among the officers, a youth named Surajah, son of Rajbullub, was with the detachment.

Surajah had been especially picked out, by the Rajah, as Dick's companion.

He generally joined him in his rides, and they had often gone on shooting excursions among the hills.

He was about three years Dick's senior, but in point of height there was but little difference between them.
Every day half the troop, under an officer, rode up the pass until within a mile of the fort near the summit, garrisoned by Mysorean troops.