We certainly could make more alarming noises than that." Meinik nodded.
"That we could, master.

With some reeds of different sizes I could make noises, some as deep as the roar of a tiger, and others like the singing of a bird." "Then we will certainly bring some reeds in here with us, Meinik.

I don't suppose they will mind, in the daytime, what sounds they hear; but at night I don't think even their officers would care to move about here, if we can but make a few noises they do not understand.
"Well, for the present we have done our work here; and you had best go off with the Burman to buy food, to serve in case of a siege.
You had better go to some of the cultivators' houses, near the edge of the wood, for rice and fruit.

If you can get the food there, you will be able to make two or three journeys a day, instead of one.
"But, before we start back, we will climb round to the top of the hill, and see what has happened to shut up the staircase." It took them a quarter of an hour's climbing, through the forest and undergrowth, before they reached the upper edge of the rock wall in which the chambers had been excavated.

It had evidently, in the first place, been a natural cliff for, when on the ledge, Stanley had noticed that while below that point the rock was as smooth as a built wall, above it was rough, and evidently untouched by the hand of man.