He sat with a savage delight, to witness this brutal scene and invent new kinds of torture.

No less than seventy men, besides women and children, perished at Busuntpoor from torture and starvation; and their bodies were left to rot in the mud, and their friends were afraid to approach them.

Bustee's body was stolen at night by his son, and Guyadut's was sold to his family by the soldiers.
Among the persons of respectability who died under the tortures, several are named below.* Buldee Sing, the husband of the Rajah's sister, took poison and died; and Ramdeen, a Brahmin of great respectability, stabbed himself to death, to avoid further torture and dishonour.

For two months did these atrocities continue at Busuntpoor; and during that time the prisoners got no food from the servants of Government.

All that they got was sent to them by their friends, or by the charitable peasantry of the country around; and when sweetmeats were sent to them as food, which the most scrupulous could eat from any hand, the soldiers often snatched them from them and ate them themselves, or took them to their officers.