See the end! Over the Passes this year after snow-melting'-- he shivered afresh--'come two strangers under cover of shooting wild goats.

They bear guns, but they bear also chains and levels and compasses.' 'Oho! The thing gets clearer.' 'They are well received by Hilas and Bunar.

They make great promises; they speak as the mouthpiece of a Kaisar with gifts.

Up the valleys, down the valleys go they, saying, "Here is a place to build a breastwork; here can ye pitch a fort.

Here can ye hold the road against an army"-- the very roads for which I paid out the rupees monthly.