I should say that we have ten days or a fortnight before us before matters get to an extremity, and in that time we ought to be able to get, working night and day, from fifty to a hundred yards beyond the wall, aiming at a clump of bushes.

There is a large one in Farquharson's compound, about a hundred yards off.

Then, when things get to the worst, we can work upwards, and come out on a dark night.

We might leave a long fuse burning in the magazine, so that there should be an explosion an hour or two after we had left.

There is enough powder there to bring the house down, and the Sepoys might suppose that we had all been buried in the ruins." "I think the idea is a very good one, Bathurst.