Lower it sank and lower, till the room was in total darkness; and at last, moved by the desire to try and escape from her captivity, Helen rose with her heart throbbing violently, to try in a fearsome hopeless way whether she could not get out of the room, having afterwards some ill-defined idea in her mind that she might, if once clear of the prison where she then was, find her way to some native campong, whose inhabitants would give her shelter, and perhaps take her down the river in their boat to where more certain help might be secured.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
In this intent the boat was steadily propelled up-stream, and at the end of the second day the Inche Maida's campong and home had been passed, and unseen they had placed some miles between them and the Princess's people.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
Why, my dear boy, we should journey along with the stream till we came to some campong, and then cut adrift a boat and escape in that.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn