Mr.Goodenough was unable to offer any suggestions for fresh defenses until they knew upon which side the enemy would attack.

He advised, however, that the whole population should be set to work throwing up an earthwork just outside each gate, in order to shelter these as far as possible from the effect of the enemy's cannonballs.

Orders were at once given to this effect, and in an hour the whole population were at work carrying earth in baskets and piling it in front of the gates.

In order to economize labor, and to make the sides of the mounds as steep as possible, Mr.Goodenough directed with brushwood, forming a sort of rough wattle work.

Not even when night set in did the people desist from their labor, and by the following morning the gates were protected from the effect of cannon shot, by mounds of earth twenty feet high, which rose before them.