No resistance was attempted, the sight of the soldiers completely cowing the mutineers.

When the bodies of the convicts that had fallen were counted and the roll of the prisoners called over, it was found that eighteen were missing, and of these six were during the course of the next hour or two brought in by the soldiers who had gone in pursuit of them.

The rest had escaped.
The convicts were all questioned separately, and the tales they told agreed so closely that the Governor could not doubt that they were speaking the truth.

All had been sworn in by one of two men, and knew nothing whatever of what was intended to be done that day, until after they were locked up on the evening previous.

Each of those in the huts had received his instructions the night before from the one man.
There were eighteen huts, each containing fifteen convicts.