CHAPTER 6: Among Friends.
"It certainly seems to me," Stanley said, when he heard the Burman's account of the state of things below, "that it will not be possible for us to go any further, by water." "It would be very dangerous," Meinik said.

"It is certain that all the men in this part of the country have been obliged to go with the army and, even were we both natives, and had no special reason for avoiding being questioned, we should be liable to be seized and executed at once, for having disregarded the orders to join the army.

Assuredly we cannot pass down farther in our boat, but must take to the land.

I should say that we had best get spears and shields, and join some newly-arrived party." "But you forget that, though my disguise as a native is good enough to mislead anyone passing us on the road, or in the dusk after sunset, I should certainly attract attention if travelling with them, by day." "I forgot that.

I have grown so accustomed to seeing you that I forget that, to other people, your face would seem strange; as it at first did to me, in the forest.