Nineteen were dead, and twenty-eight were wounded, writhing in every gradation of agony, some horribly mangled.

The rest stood staring at me in astonishment, not understanding those peals of thunder that had laid the monster low.
There was no terror or awe, however--nothing more than surprise; and the Kohen, whose clothes were torn into shreds and covered with blood, looked at me in bewilderment.

I said to him, out of my small stock of words, that the wounded ought at once to be cared for.

At this he turned away and made some remarks to his men.
I now stood ready to lend my own services, if needful.

I expected to take a part in the tender attentions which were the due of these gallant souls, who had exhibited such matchless valor; these men who thought nothing of life, but flung it away at the command of their chief without dreaming of flight or of hesitation.