Captain Clive has strongly recommended you for this difficult mission." "I fear, sir, that I could hardly pass as a native.

The moonshee is constantly correcting mistakes which I make, in speaking." "That may be so," Mr.Saunders said; "but there are a score of dialects in Southern India, and you could be passed upon nineteen of the twenty peoples who speak them, as belonging to one of the other." "If you think, sir, that I shall do," Charlie said; "I shall be glad to undertake the mission." "Very well, Mr.Marryat, that is understood, then.

You will receive full instructions in writing, and will understand that your duty is not only to drill the troops of this chief; but to give him such advice as may suit his and our interests; to strengthen his good feeling towards us; and to form, as far as possible, a compact little force which might, at a critical moment, be of immense utility.

You will, of course, master the geography of the country, of which we are all but absolutely ignorant; find out about the passes, the mountain paths, the defensible positions.

All these things may someday be of the highest importance.
"You will have a few days to make your arrangements, and settle as to the character you will adopt.