I remember quite well that there were soldiers, and Father and Mother, and servants, and many other people, and everyone was very miserable, and we all went together out of a gate, and on each side there were a great many natives with guns and swords, some on horse and some on foot; and there were elephants.
I don't think I had ever seen one before, for I noticed them particularly.

We went on and on, and I know one of the soldiers carried me.
"At night we stopped somewhere.

I think it was in a wood, and there were fires, and we lay down to sleep on the ground.

Then I woke up suddenly, and there was a great noise and firing of guns, and someone caught me up and threw something over my head, and I don't remember anything more, for a long time.

I know that presently I was on horseback, before a fierce-looking man.