Let us turn down between these houses, and make our way round behind.

We might be questioned again, by a fresh party of soldiers, if we were to go along the street." They kept along on the outskirts of the village, regained the road by which they had come, and walked on until they reached the edge of the jungle.

Going a short distance among the trees, they collected some sticks, lit a fire, and sat down to cook their meal.
At the last village or two, they had heard but little of tigers, and now agreed that they could safely lie down, and that it would not be necessary for them to rig up their blankets as hammocks, as they had done on the first two nights..