The only course was to land, under cover of the guns.

As the firing ceased and the smoke cleared away, I looked across the rice-fields which lay beneath the bluff.

The first sunbeams glowed upon their emerald levels, and on the blossoming hedges along the rectangular dikes.

What were those black dots which everywhere appeared?
Those moist meadows had become alive with human heads, and along each narrow path came a straggling file of men and women, all on a run for the river-side.

I went ashore with a boat-load of troops at once.