Twelve out of the number had gems hidden about them, and some of them a good lot.

You need not hesitate to take them, for you may be sure that they bought them, for next to nothing, from poor fellows who had risked their lives to hide them.
"There they are.

We have not looked at them, but just emptied the parcels into this bag, as we found them.

Of course, they are all rough stones.

You must take them as a present, from all of us; and as a proof that a Burman, even if he is but a robber, is grateful for such a service as that you rendered him." Stanley felt that he could not refuse a gift so offered, even though the goods were stolen.