Gregory went there.
"Can I speak to you for a few minutes, sir ?" he asked.
"Certainly, Mr.Hilliard.What can I do for you ?" "I have been thinking over what you were saying, regarding information as to Mahmud's intentions.

With your permission, I am ready to undertake to go into his camp, and to find out what the general opinion is as to his plans." "Impossible, Mr.Hilliard! I admire your courage in making the offer, but it would be going to certain death." "I do not think so, sir.

I talk Baggara better than the Negro dialect that passes here.

It is among the Baggara that I am likely to learn something of my father's fate; and, as the old nurse from whom I learnt these languages had been for a long time among that tribe, she devoted, at my mother's request, more time to teaching me their Arab dialect than any other, and I am convinced that I could pass unsuspected among them, as far as language is concerned.

There is no great difference between Arab features and European, and I think that, when I am stained brown and have my head partly shaved, according to their fashion, there will be little fear of my being detected.
"As to costume, that is easy enough.