Of course, you can be carried on; but I think that the air here is a great deal more healthy, and bracing, than it is at Prome and, the longer you stay here, the better." Stanley's note was a short one.

It merely said that he had succeeded in getting his cousin, and the trooper who was carried off at the same time, from the hands of the Burmese, but that Harry was still very weak; and that, if he himself could be spared, he would stay with him at the village for another week or ten days, at the end of which time he would ride, by easy stages, to Prome.
Three days later, the trooper returned with a note from the general.
"I congratulate you most heartily on having rescued your cousin," he wrote.

"By all means, stay where you are until he is quite strong again.

This place is not at all healthy, at present.

We shall not be moving forward for another three weeks." Stanley remained at the village for another fortnight and, at the end of that time, Harry had so far recovered that he was quite capable of making a short day's journey on horseback.