No doubt they smelt you and the horses, but were too much afraid of the fire to come any nearer.

Why, you must have heard tigers often enough to know their cries." "I thought myself that they were tigers," the man said, rather shamefacedly, "but the boys said they were certain that they were not; and I was not sure, myself, one way or the other." Sitting down by the fire, Stanley told the men the exact position of the prisoners; and said that he feared it would be altogether impossible to get Harry out, for the present.
"I would give anything to have him here," he said; "but it would be impossible to get him over the palisade." "We might cut through it, master," Meinik said.

"With a sharp saw we could cut a hole big enough, in an hour, to carry his litter out.

The only thing is, we could not get his bed through that window." "We might get over that, by making a narrow litter," Stanley said, "and lifting him from the bed on to it.

The difficulty would be, what to do with him when we got him out?
As to carrying him any distance, in his present state it would be out of the question; besides, the guard are sure to be vigilant, for some considerable time.