Then he put on the peasant's clothes.
"You will pass well, now," Cuitcatl said, heading him out in the moonlight, so that he could obtain a good view of him.

"It is only your height that is against you.

Still, some men are taller than others; though I never saw one as tall as you, and you will certainly be stared at.
"Is there anything else in the way of arms you would like, beside the ax and spear ?" "I shall make myself a bow and arrows, when we get fairly away," Roger said.
"I did not know you could use them." "I could not use such little things as those your people carry; but we still use the bow in England, and every boy is obliged, by law, to practice with it.

With such a bow as I should make, I could send an arrow three times as far as those puny weapons of yours, and could keep my foes at a distance; whereas, otherwise, they could shoot me down as they chose." "They will not shoot you down," Cuitcatl said.

"You may be quite sure that the orders will be to take you alive, and this will give you a great advantage, if you are attacked.