Some secured lines about the monster so as to tow it astern; others busied themselves with the corpses, collecting them and arranging them in rows.

At length we returned, towing the monster astern.
I could not speak until I was back again in the lighted rooms and alone with Almah; then I told her, as well as I could, the horror that I felt.
"It was honor to those brave men," said she.
"Honor!" said I."What! to kill them ?" "Yes," said she; "it is so with these people; with them death is the highest blessing.

They all love death and seek after it.

To die for another is immortal glory.

To kill the wounded was to show that they had died for others.