This was as unsuccessful as the others.

The bodies, indeed, of the killed now forming a well-nigh impassable barrier and, after several of the officers and many of the bravest men had fallen, the remainder withdrew suddenly.

The governor appeared to recognize that the task was an impossible one; and two or three hundred men were at once set to work felling trees and, by nightfall, a high stockade had been erected round the open ground in front of the temple.
"They are going to try to starve us out," Stanley said.

"There is no more chance of fighting, tonight." As soon as the stockade was finished, musketeers took their place behind it and opened a dropping fire at the entrance, while the woodcutters continued to fell trees.
"We must get rid of these dead bodies, if we can," Stanley said, "or the place will be uninhabitable, in a day or two.
"Get those two bamboos we had for the litter, Meinik.

We will push the bodies out, one by one, beginning with those on the top of the heap.