It would be better to sleep in a tree than that." "You would not get much sleep in a tree, Sahib.

I have done it once or twice, when I have been hunting in a tiger-infested neighbourhood; but I got scarcely any sleep, and was so stiff, in the morning, that I could hardly walk.

I would rather sit up all night, and keep up a good fire, than do that." Dick thought for a minute or two, and then got up and walked about under the trees, keeping his eyes fixed upon the branches overhead.
"This will do," he said at last.

"Come here, Surajah.

There! Do you see those two branches, coming out in the same direction?
At one point, they are but five or six feet apart.