At any rate, we shall be safer, here, than we were in that hut in the mountains." The Malay made no reply, for some time.

Then he said: "Yes, sahib, but there was something to do, there.

Directly we got in, you began to prepare for an escape.

It was not certain that we should succeed.

They might have come in and killed us, before you were ready but, as we were busy, we had not much time to think of the danger.
"Here we can do nothing." "No.