The recesses in parts of the caves swarmed with them, and the men laid in quite a store of them, before we were besieged.

Unfortunately they would not keep well, even in these cool chambers, so we had to fall back on rice.

You liked it so much that, though there was no occasion to have gone on with snake soup, after we got to the village, I continued to give it to you; for it is very nourishing." "Well, I am glad you did not tell me, at the time; but I must own that it was excellent, and I think that, in future, I shall have no objection to snake in that form." "They are just as good, in other ways," Stanley replied.

"The Burmans are no fools, and I consider that snake and lizards are very much better eating than their mutton; which is tasteless stuff, at the best." "We shall have to have a big settlement, when we get back, Stanley.
Of course, all those men you paid, and the guards you bribed, are entirely my account; to say nothing of my share of the general expenditure." "The general expenses are practically nothing, Harry.

I invited you to come with me and, of course, you were my guest.