A great many victims are sacrificed in the palace itself, but the wholesale slaughters take place there.

The high brushwood comes up to within twenty yards of it, and if you turn in there you will see thousands of dead bodies or their remains putrefying together." "I thought I felt a horribly offensive smell as I was talking to the king," Frank said shuddering.

"What monsters these people must be! Who would have thought that all that show of gold and silver and silks and bright colors covered such horrible barbarism!" After chatting for some time longer, and offering to do anything in their power to assist the captives, the Germans took their leave..