Do not put up with any inferior lodging." "Very well, sir; I shall endeavour to carry out your orders, to the letter." Harry was fortunate in being able to purchase an excellent horse and, in the afternoon, received his letters of instruction.

On the following day he embarked in a twelve-gun sloop, with twenty troopers under the command of a native officer.

The wind was favourable and, in four days, they arrived at the mouth of the Ganjam.
A large native barge came out to meet them.

The horses and the stores which Harry had purchased, together with some boxes with presents for the rajah, were transferred to her; and two of the ship's boats took the barge in tow to the shore.

The commandant of the small garrison there informed Harry that the bullock carts had already gone on to a village, thirty miles away; and that he would find all in readiness for him, on his arrival.
Without waiting an hour he started with his escort and, half a mile from the village, found the camp already pitched.