It will save time after breakfast." Half an hour later, they were again on their way, and shortly came upon a boy herding some goats.

He looked doubtfully at them, but, seeing that they were not Mysorean soldiers, he did not attempt to fly.
"How far is it to the next village, lad ?" Surajah asked; "and which is the way?
We are shikarees.

Are there any tigers about ?" "Plenty of them," the boy said.

"I drive the goats to a strong, high stockade every evening; and would not come out, before the sun rose, for all the money they say the sultan has.
"Make for that tree, and close to it you will see a spring.

Follow that down.