There was great trouble in getting them to come up to the guns.

The Doctor says it is all over for the present." Two other large parties with elephants were seen to come up to the native lines in the course of the afternoon.

The defenders of the roof had now turned their attention to their foes in the gardens around, and the fire thence was gradually suppressed, until by evening everything was quiet.
By this time the work of filling the sandbags was completed; the doors and windows had been barricaded, and a large pile of bags lay in the inclosure ready for erection at any threatened point..