As you say, you must, of course, disguise yourselves as peasants.

You had better, in addition to your guns, each take a brace of pistols, and so armed, even if any of the villagers were inclined to be hostile, they would not care about interfering with you." "Thank you, Uncle.

When would you expect us back, if we start tomorrow morning ?" "That must be entirely in your hands, Dick.

You would hardly climb the ghauts and light upon a village in one day, and it might be necessary to go farther, before you could obtain any news.

It is a broken country, with much jungle for some distance beyond the hills, and the villages lying off the roads will have but little communication with each other, and might know nothing, whatever, of what was happening in the cultivated plains beyond.