There was hardly standing room for them; scarcely a breath of air was to be got; the time was night, the weather sweltering hot.

Before the dawn came, the captives were all dead but twenty-three.

Mr.Holwell's long account of the awful episode was familiar to the world a hundred years ago, but one seldom sees in print even an extract from it in our day.

Among the striking things in it is this.

Mr.Holwell, perishing with thirst, kept himself alive by sucking the perspiration from his sleeves.