He found the work not even half performed.

About thirty corpses lay wallowing in blood on the dunghills before the doors.

One or two women were seen among the number, and, a yet more fearful and piteous sight, a little hand, which had been lopped in the tumult of the butchery from some infant.

One aged Macdonald was found alive.

He was probably too infirm to fly, and, as he was above seventy, was not included in the orders under which Glenlyon had acted.