I was the only white captive who went there with him.

At Kistnagherry there were five or six others, but when Tippoo heard that an English army was coming up the ghauts, an order came that they were to be killed.

But the governor is a kind-hearted old fellow, and as I had become almost a chum of his, he chose to consider that the order did not apply to me, but only to those he had found at Kistnagherry--for I fancy my existence had been forgotten altogether.
"I had great hopes that the British would take the place.

I think that is the only time I have hoped, since I was made prisoner; but the old man is a good soldier, and beat them off.
"When peace was made, Kistnagherry was, as you know, given up, and the governor was ordered to evacuate the place, and to come here.

He brought me with him, making me dye my face before I started, so that in my native dress it would not be noticed, in any town we passed through, that I was a white.