With a spear your people would know quite as much as I should; but I fancy that, with a quarterstaff, I should astonish them.

It has the advantage, too, that it disables without killing; and as your soldiers would only be doing their duty in arresting me, I should be sorry to do them more harm than I could help.
"There were a great many men on the road below there, today." "A great many, my lord; and no doubt the garrisons of the two towns we shall have to pass tonight will be all out, and on the watch.
This is the most dangerous part of the journey.

The mountains are rugged, and there are only certain passes by which we can travel, and they are sure to be watched narrowly.

They will guess that we shall travel by night." "I suppose it will not be possible to make a detour, either to the south or north ?" The Aztec shook his head.
"To the north lie terrible mountains, of whose passes I know nothing.

Our provisions are exhausted, and we must, in future, depend upon maize and other things we can pick by the way.