But that is because I was afraid, whereas Ranjoor Singh was not.

I greatly feared being left behind to bring the men along, and the more I thought of it, the worse the prospect seemed; so I began to tell of things I had heard Gooja Singh say against him, and which of the men I had heard and seen to agree, for there is no good sense in a man who is afraid.
"Is it my affair to take vengeance on them, or to lead them into safety ?" he asked.

And what could I answer?
After some silence he spread out his map where firelight shone on it and showed Abraham and me where the Tigris River runs by Diarbekr.
"Thus," he said, "we must go," pointing with his finger, "and thus--and thus--by Diarbekr, down by the Tigris, by Mosul, into Kurdistan, to Sulimanieh, and thence into Persia--a very long march through very wild country.

Outside the cities I am told no Turk dare show himself with less than four hundred men at his back, so we will keep to the open.

If the Turks mistake us for Turks, the better for us.
If the tribes mistake us for Turks, the worse for us; for they say the tribes hate Turks worse than smallpox.