We killed five or six of them, but were beaten down and ten of our number were slain.

They murdered all the sick in the wagons and marched us away, bound, to this village where you found us.

Sandy McAlister they had murdered just as you came up, and we should have had a like horrible fate had you been a few minutes later.

Eh, sir! but it's an awful death to be cut in pieces by these devils incarnate!" "Well, lads," Malcolm said, "we will determine that they shall not take us alive again.

If we are overtaken or met by any of these gangs of peasants we will fight till we die.