[On the Irrawaddy by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookOn the Irrawaddy CHAPTER 3: A Prisoner 4/32
Six days later they reached the camp of Bandoola.
They were drawn up at a distance from the great man's tent.
He came down, accompanied by a party of officers, to look at them.
He beckoned to Stanley. Stanley is brought before Bandoola, the Burmese general. "Ask him if he is an officer," he said to an interpreter, standing by his side. The man put the question in Hindustani.
Stanley replied, in Burmese: "I am an officer, your lordship, but a temporary one, only.
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