human
Get our rifles and ammunition, Hassan, said Denviers to the Arab. Then turning to me, he continued:
gpt
We shall have some tough fighting I expect when those niggers return, but we are able to hold our own better out of the tent than in it.
human
The sahibs are wise to prepare for another attack, since the enemy must return this way. They have not gone off towards the far mountain peaks, but crossed yonder limestone bridge instead.
gpt
What do you understand from that movement?
human
The sound which we heard at first came from the strange city of which I spoke, he replied.
gpt
Some of the fierce hill-men have made a night attack upon it, and will soon return this way. Those we have beaten off have gone to meet them and to speak of the failure to surprise us. What they are doing in the city round the sunken ship will shortly be apparent. The whole band is a terrible scourge to the cities of the Meinam, for, by Allah, as I told the sahibs at Ayuthia, the Hunted Tribe has a weird history indeed.