It would be worse than useless for you to dress as a Burman, unless you did so; for it would seem even more singular, to the people in the streets, that a white man should be seen walking about dressed as an officer, than that a white prisoner should be taken through the streets under a guard.
"I am ready to go out with you now, if you wish it." "I shall be ready in a few minutes," Stanley replied and, on being left alone, at once changed his attire and stained his face and hands.
He had just finished when the officer returned.

He smiled and said: "There is no fear of your being suspected, now; and you might really go about safely without a guard, unless you were to enter into conversation with anyone.

You speak the language very well, but your accent is not quite the same as ours, here, though in Aracan it would pass unremarked." As they went out from the prison, the officer told two soldiers who were waiting there to follow, at a distance.
"Do not approach us," he said, "unless I call you up." The houses were not constructed in continuous rows, but were very scattered, each house having its inclosure or garden.

The population was very small, in comparison to the area occupied by the town.

This was divided into two parts--the inner and outer town.