As their commander entered the city they gave voice to cheer after cheer.
Although no attempt was made to humiliate them the Spanish soldiers seemed at first to feel downcast and scarcely glanced at their conquerors as they passed by, but this apparent depth of feeling was not displayed very long.

Without being sullen they appeared to be utterly indifferent to the reverses of the Spanish arms, but it was not long ere the prospect of regulation rations and a chance to go to their homes made them almost cheerful.

All about the filthy streets of the city the starving refugees: could be seen, gaunt, hollow-eyed, weak and trembling.
The squalor in the streets was dreadful.

The bones of dead horses and other animals were bleaching in the streets and buzzards almost as tame as sparrows hopped aside as passers-by disturbed them.

There was a fetid smell everywhere and evidences of a pitiless siege and starvation on every hand.
The palace was reached soon after 10 o'clock.