It will take you to the village." After walking for six hours, they came to the village.

It was a place of some little size, but there were few people about.

Women came to the doors to look at Surajah and Dick as they came along.
"Where are you from ?" an old man asked, as he came out from his cottage.
"From down the mountain side.

Tigers are getting scarce there, and we thought we would come over and see what we could do, here." "Here there are many tigers," the old man said.

"For the last twenty years, the wars have taken most of our young men away.