They had both been lodged in the jail.
By this time, the conduct of the English towards the natives, at Rangoon and the territory they occupied, had had one good effect.
Signally as they had been defeated by them, the Burmese had lost their individual hatred of the strangers.

They knew that their wounded and prisoners always received kind treatment at their hands and, although the court of Ava remained as arrogant and bigoted as ever, the people in lower Burma had learned to respect their invaders, and the few prisoners they had taken received much better treatment than those who had been captured at the commencement of the war.
As soon as it was dusk, Stanley went with Meinik into the town.

It was a place of considerable size, with buildings at least equal to those at Prome.

Toungoo had formed part of the kingdom of Pegu, before it had been subdued by the Burmese.

The peculiar and characteristic facial outline of the latter was, here, much less strongly marked and, in many cases, entirely absent; so Stanley felt that, even in daylight, he would pass without attracting any attention.
The prison was surrounded by a strong and high bamboo fence, and in the space inclosed by this were eight or ten dwellings of the usual wooden construction.