Fortunately I speak the Mug dialect, which is very closely akin to the Burmese." "Well," the colonel said, "I hope that you will consider the regiment your home; though I suppose that, until the campaign is at an end, you will only be able to pay us an occasional visit.

You are lucky in getting the staff appointment.

No doubt your being able to talk Burmese has a great deal to do with it." "Everything, I think, sir.

The general had no one on his staff who could speak the language and, unless he happened to have with him one of the very few men here who can do so, often had to wait some time before a prisoner could be questioned." He remained chatting for half an hour, and then rode back to the town; taking the other road to that which he had before traversed..