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On the Irrawaddy

CHAPTER 13: Preparing A Rescue
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"Tomorrow night I will bring some fruit.

You can squeeze the juice of some limes into a little water, and give it to him.

There is nothing better for fever.

As soon as he is well enough for us to get him through the palisades, we will have a litter ready for him, and carry him off; but nothing can be done until then.
"How are you treated ?" "They give me plenty of rice, sahib, and I am at liberty to go out into the courtyard in the daytime and, now that I know that you are near, I shall have no fear.

I have been expecting that they would send me to Ava where, no doubt, they would kill me; but I have thought most that, if they were to send me away from here, and there was no one to look after the sahib, he would surely die." At this moment Stanley felt a hand roughly placed on his shoulder.
Turning round, he struck out with all his strength, full in a man's face, and he fell like a log.
"If they ask you who was here," he said hastily to the trooper, "say that you know not who it was.


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