There is not one of us who speaks this Mug language--which is, you know, almost the same as Burmese--and the officers in charge of the native levy would be delighted to have some one with them who could make the fellows understand.

I can appoint you a first-class interpreter.

The pay is not very high, you know; but you might just as well be earning it as doing nothing, and it would give you a sort of official position and, as the son of a British officer, and my friend, you would be one of us." "Thank you very much, Captain Noton.

I should like it immensely.
Should I have to get a uniform ?" "There will be no absolute necessity for it; but if you get a white patrol jacket, like this, and a white cap cover, it will establish you in the eyes of the natives as an officer, and give you more authority.

Oh, by the way, you need not get them, for one of our lieutenants died, the other day, of fever.