At four o'clock they are to start, through the forest, to the road you spoke of.

We will set out at the same time, on horseback; but we shall have to make a detour, so they will be on the road before we are.

Tell them when they get there to stop, until we come up." "Yes, master.

It is a good thing that I rode your second horse, yesterday, instead of Mr.Brooke's animal." "Yes, he is worth a good deal more than the other, Meinik, and I should certainly have been sorry to lose him." "One of the men who is going with us says that he knows of the ruins of an old temple, eight or nine miles this side of Toungoo; and that this would be a good place for us to leave our horses.

It is very, very old; one of those built by the people who lived in the land before we came to it, and the Burmans do not like to go near it; so that there would be no fear of our being disturbed, there.