We have two guns, and a brace of pistols, and spears for us all; and if we cannot defend that narrow passage, against any number of Burmans, we shall deserve our fate.
"Besides, there is another, and even narrower door, in the corner behind you.

They would have to force that; and in the chamber beyond there is a narrow, straight staircase, some forty feet high, which a man with an axe ought to be able to hold against an army.
They are taking the stores up there, now.

We have got provisions and water for a month.

When everything is straight, there we shall carry you up and, unless they sit down in front of this place and regularly starve us out, we are as safe as if we were in Prome." "I wish to goodness you had that hideous dye off you, Stanley.

I know it is you by your voice but, what with the colour, and all that tattooing, and your extraordinary hair, I don't know you in the least." "I am in just the same disguise as that in which I made my way down from Ava," Stanley laughed.