They came forth helpless but suspecting no treachery, the Nana's host closed around them, and at a signal from a trumpet the massacre began.

About two hundred women and children were spared--for the present--but all the men except three or four were killed.

Among the incidents of the massacre quoted by Sir G.O.Trevelyan, is this: "When, after the lapse of some twenty minutes, the dead began to outnumber the living;--when the fire slackened, as the marks grew few and far between; then the troopers who had been drawn up to the right of the temple plunged into the river, sabre between teeth, and pistol in hand.

Thereupon two half-caste Christian women, the wives of musicians in the band of the Fifty-sixth, witnessed a scene which should not be related at second-hand.

'In the boat where I was to have gone,' says Mrs.Bradshaw, confirmed throughout by Mrs.Setts, 'was the school-mistress and twenty-two misses.