We shall be a match, then, for any three or four men we may come across.

At any rate, I shall shoot myself if I see that there is no other way of escape.

It would be a thousand times better to die, than be taken captive and tortured to death." "Good, sahib! I will use my bayonet, myself; but I don't think there will be any occasion for that." "I shall certainly die fighting.

I would rather not be taken alive, Pertab; and shall certainly fight till I am killed, or can take my own life." "Do you think that the troops will be marched away, sahib ?" "I feel sure that they will.

They have only got provisions enough to take them back to camp; and as, when they pull the wire in, they will find that we have gone, they will feel quite sure that we have been drowned.
"No; we must quite make up our minds that we have got to look after ourselves.