There were things said about their habits and their ancestry that it is to be hoped they did not hear, or at any rate understand, for the sake of any Arab prisoners they might take in future.

It always struck me as a fool game to mock your enemy.
If you fall in his power at any time he would be almost more than human if he did not remember it.

It seemed to me unlikely that those Sikhs would forget to avenge the Arab compliments that must have sizzled in ears across that star-lit sea.

After that the only immediate danger was from the wind that sometimes blows down in sudden gusts from between the mountain-tops.

It would have needed only half a sea to swamp us.