They crushed one another.

The women leaned over the battlements and shrieked.

They were dragged away by their veils, and the whiteness of their suddenly uncovered sides shone in the arms of the Negroes as the latter buried their daggers in them.

Some corpses did not fall, being too much pressed by the crowd, and, supported by the shoulders of their companions, advanced for some minutes quite upright and with staring eyes.

Some who had both temples pierced by a javelin swayed their heads about like bears.