A journey of a hundred and fifty miles, to anyone who has never been on horseback, would be a terrible trial, especially to a young girl.

I really wonder that she did not break down altogether.

Why, you can remember how stiff you were, yourself, the first day or two you were here, and that after riding only an hour or two." "I know, Uncle, and I should not have been in the least surprised, if she had collapsed.

I talked it over with Surajah, and we agreed that, if she could not go on, we must hire a vehicle of some sort, and let her travel, every day, in front of us with Ibrahim, and that if it delayed us so much that there was any possibility of our being overtaken, we would have put on our peasant's dresses, got rid of our horses, and have gone forward on foot.
"However, she kept up wonderfully well, and always made the best of things." "We won't ask you to tell us anything more, Dick, till your mother joins us, or you will have to go over the story twice." "No, Uncle; and I can assure you I don't want to tell the story until I have had my supper, for our meals have not been very comfortable on the road, and I have not eaten anything since early this morning." "What is Tippoo doing, Dick ?" "Well, as far as I can see, Uncle, he is preparing for war again.

He is strengthening all his forts, building fresh defences to Seringapatam, and drilling numbers of fresh troops." "The English general made a great mistake, in not finishing with him when he was there.