The fire roared.
The pontiffs of Moloch walked about on the great flagstone scanning the multitude.
An individual sacrifice was necessary, a perfectly voluntary oblation, which was considered as carrying the others along with it.

But no one had appeared up to the present, and the seven passages leading from the barriers to the colossus were completely empty.

Then the priests, to encourage the people, drew bodkins from their girdles and gashed their faces.

The Devotees, who were stretched on the ground outside, were brought within the enclosure.

A bundle of horrible irons was thrown to them, and each chose his own torture.