"Yesterday they entered the village of Ki without resistance, as the dwellers there were all peaceable persons, who gain a living from the fields, and who neither understood nor troubled about the matters between the rebels and the army.

Relying on the promises made by the rebel chiefs, the villagers even welcomed them, as they had been assured that they came as buyers of their corn and rice.

To-day not a house stands in the street of Ki, not a person lives.
The men they slew quickly, or held for torture, as they desired at the moment; the boys they hung from the trees as marks for their arrows.
Of the women and children this person, who has since been subject to several attacks of fainting and vomiting, desires not to speak.

The wells of Ki are filled with the bodies of such as had the good fortune to be warned in time to slay themselves.

The cattle drag themselves from place to place on their forefeet; the fish in the Heng-Kiang are dying, for they cannot live on water thickened into blood.