There is surely money in it.

Chang's present earnings are rather less than _7s._ a month, without board and lodging; he is unmarried, and has no incumbrance; and he is slightly taller and much more massively built than a well-known American giant whom I once had permission to measure, who has been shown half over the world as the "tallest man on earth," his height being attested as "7ft.

11in.

in his stockings' soles," and who commands the salary of an English admiral.
We made only a short march the first evening, but after that we travelled by long stages.

The country was very pretty, open glades with clumps of pine, and here and there a magnificent sacred tree like the banyan, under whose far-reaching branches small villages are often half concealed.