A great many people have been ill; a great many died.

Now you have got it, why should you go away again ?" "It is quite certain that we shall not give it all up, Meinik.

It has been, as you say, a troublesome and very expensive business; and the farther the king obliges us to go up, before he makes peace, the more he will have to pay, either in money or territory.
Of course, I cannot say what the terms of peace will be; but I should think that, very likely, we shall hold the country from the sea up to here, with Aracan and a strip along the sea coast of Tenasserim." "That will be good," Meinik said.

"I shall never go outside the English land, again.

There will be plenty to do, and a great trade on the river; everyone will be happy and contented.