No one else could be seen.

Two or three were reported killed; some were wounded.

Beads, boxes, cloths, etc., lay strewed about the woods.

In fact, I felt wrecked.

My attempt to go and demand redress from the sultan was resisted, and, in utter despair, I seated myself among a mass of rascals jeering round me, and insolent after the success of the day.
Several were dressed in the very cloths, etc., they had stolen from my men.
"In the afternoon, about fifteen men and loads were brought me, with a message from the sultan, that the attack had been a mistake of his subjects--that one man had had a hand cut off for it, and that all the property would be restored! "Yours sincerely, J.W.