They murdered our two native servants, blinded Kitwater, and cut out Codd's tongue.

I alone managed to effect my escape.

Leaving my two companions for dead, I managed to get away into the jungle.

Good Heavens! man, you can't imagine what I suffered after that." I looked at him and saw that his face had grown pale at the mere recollection of his experiences.
"At last I reached the British outpost of Nampoung, on the Burmah-Chinese border, where the officers took me in and played the part of the good Samaritan.

When I was well enough to travel, I made my way down to Rangoon, where, still believing my late companions to be dead, I shipped for England." "As Mr.George Bertram," I said quietly.