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of my guide's tactics, for the chances 

 were that our pursuers would not think 

 of following us in the direction we had 

 chosen. We gave up our tattus for lost, 

 as indeed they were ; but they had done 

 their duty nobly by us, and we could well 

 afford to spare them now, when we dare 

 not show ourselves on the high roads, but 

 must be content with lying up all day and 

 travelling at night. Now approaching a 

 dense jungle, which abounded in snakes 

 and tigers, my guide quaintly remarked, 

 in his bad English, that it was not likely 

 they would make a very close search for 

 us there, if, indeed, they would venture 

 to follow us into it at all. We did not 

 penetrate far before coming to a clearing 

 on which we threw ourselves, and, feeling 

 tolerably safe for the present, determined 

 to remain where we were till the pursuit 



