Whole villages, which had submitted without resistance, were plundered, the women violated by order of the officers, in some cases until death ensued.

All who were able to escape hid in the caves along the shore, and made their way in small boats, as opportunity offered, to Cerigotto.

I ran over in the Kestrel and saw two boats arrive, so freighted that it was almost inconceivable that they should have made a sea voyage of twenty miles even in calm weather.

I saw a man of ninety who had been wrapped in cloths saturated with oil, to which fire was set, and who was left to burn, but whose friends came back in time to save his life, though I saw the fresh scars of the burning over his whole breast.

Meanwhile the Arkadi came and went without interference, and the insurrection was practically unmolested.
Omar Pasha arrived on the ninth of April, and, two days after, 2000 insurgents attacked the guard of the aqueduct which supplied Canea with water, and were repelled, the plan of attack having been betrayed by a miller of the vicinity; but the main object of the Cretans had been to show a sign of virility to the new commander-in-chief, and the object was attained with the loss of three killed.