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pared to accompany him. They journeyed on in silence ; and the Englishman had thus ample lei- sure to give free scope to his reflections. Compa- ratively a few hours had sufficed to bring him from the cave to the extremity of the jungle: but on the former ocoasion of his endeavour to find an issue from the wilderness, he, had taken another direction and had thas only floundered farther and farther into its depths. Whether he was still in the kingdom of Inderabad, he knew not: but he was very cortain that when first entering the jungle after his flight from imprisonment in the eapital city of that kingdom, he had not passed through the region where he now found himoelf. When in the jungle, and exposed to all its horrors, he would cheerfully have fallen in with any of Queen Indora’s emissaries who might have been sent in pursuit of him: but now that he was clear beyond the limits of that awful wilderness, he entertained | the precisely opposite feeling, and trembled at the ‘ * No, 100.—Fourtm Seeizs. ee THR MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. 377 thought of being recaptured and conducted back to Inderabad. Thus it was of some consequence to him to learn whether he was still within the range of Queen Indora’s jurisdiction: bat how could he possibly ascertain P—for no intelligible word could he exchange with the Gossoon. Trust- ing therefore to some fortuitous circumstance to impart the intelligence which he required, he walked on with his companion. In about an hour and a half—as the sun was sinking into its western bed—they reached the outskirts of the town, which was one of moderate sise. As they entered the streets, the Burker looked about to see if there were any English sol diers or Sepoys, such as he had seen in Calcatta and other places in Anglo-India through which he had passed when journeying as a prisoner in the suite of Queen Indora and her royal husband: but Le beheld none of those indications of a British possession. The Gossoon led him on through comicibooks.conm