"Is he an Englishman, also ?" "No, sir; he is a native.

He is a most faithful fellow.

He has acted as my guide, all the way down from the point we started from, twenty miles from Ava.

I could never have accomplished it without his aid for, although I speak Burmese well enough to pass anywhere, my face is so different in shape from theirs that, if I were looked at closely in the daylight, I should be suspected at once.

I could never have got here without his aid." "How was it that he came to help you, sir ?" Major Pemberton asked.
"As far as we can see, the Burmese hate us like poison.