We can keep down behind the shelter of the pile, till we have got most of them out.

After that, we must take our chance of a shot." It took them some hours' work but, at last, the passage was cleared, and the bodies all thrown outside.

The fire was lighted in the next room; and Stanley, bidding two men listen attentively for any movement, went up again to Harry--to whom he had paid a flying visit, as soon as the Burmese drew off.
"We cannot risk having a light here, Harry," he said.

"I don't want them to have any idea that this chamber, which is nearly fifty feet above the entrance, is in any way connected with the rooms below.
If such an idea struck them, they might lower men from above by ropes, and so take us in the rear." "Did you say that we are regularly shut up, in front, by that stockade ?" "Yes; there is certainly no getting out, that way.

Behind, you know, it is a sheer wall of rock; and the only possibility, that I can see, is that we may clear a staircase which runs up through the rock, from a ledge on the level of this room, to the ruins of a building above.