He has made his escape and will, in a short time, go down the river; but at present the search is too hot for him.

So you see that he is, like ourselves, a fugitive." "What is his age ?" one of the men asked, after a silence, during which they all gazed at the newcomer.
"He is but a lad, being as he tells me between sixteen and seventeen; but you see his skin is stained, and his face marked, so as to give him the appearance of age." "If the men of his race are as brave as he is, Meinik, our troops will truly have harder work than they think to drive them into the sea.

Does he speak our tongue ?" "Yes," Stanley answered for himself.

"I have been more than two years in the province of Chittagong, and learned it from one who was in our service." "And would many of your people risk their lives in the way you did, for a stranger ?" "Certainly.

Many men constantly run risks as great to save others." "One life is all a man has," the Burman said.