Should we meet native boats and be stopped, Por Sing's son will be able to induce them to let us pass.
Certainly none of the villagers about here would be likely to disobey him.

Once beyond Cawnpore, I believe that he would have sufficient influence, speaking, as he does, in the name, not only of his father, but of other powerful landowners, to induce any of these Oude people to let us pass.

No, I regard Cawnpore as our one danger, and I believe it to be a very real one.

I have been thinking, indeed, that it would be a good thing when we get within a couple of miles of the place for all who are able to walk, to land on the opposite bank, and make their way along past Cawnpore, and take to the boats again a mile below the town." "That would be an excellent plan, Doctor; but if the boats were stopped and they found the sick, they would kill them to a certainty.

I don't think we could leave them.