So, do you get the order.

You had better send it straight to Bothron; and tell him to collect it, and credit it to my account.
"How long do you think that this business is going to last ?" "It depends how far we have to go before the Burmese decide that they have had enough of it.

At present, the general hope is that, as soon as we arrive at Prome, they will give in.

If they don't we may have to go up to Ava and, in that case, we may not finish it until this time next year; for I suppose operations will have to come to a stop, when the wet season begins again, and we could hardly reach Ava before that." "I expect, some day, we shall have to take the whole country, Stanley.

You may frighten the court into submission, when you approach the capital; but I fancy they will never keep to the terms that we shall insist upon, and that there will have to be another expedition.