They slid down a precipice, where no one would have thought a human being could have got down alive.

They were all of them retaken, except one, and executed the following day; but the sultan was so furious that, although it was no fault of the governor, who had sentries placed everywhere, he sent for him to Seringapatam, and threw him to the tigers, declaring that there must have been treachery at work.

You may be sure that I have no desire to hold English prisoners, after that; and when they have been sent here have been glad, indeed, when orders came for their execution.
"A good many were ordered to be starved to death.

But I never waited for that.

It took too long.