Their bodies could be seen all over the place.

Many dead were seen on the beach where they had fallen when cruelly bayoneted off the cliffs.
While Boyton and a brave Peruvian officer, Colonel Timoteo Smith, were hastily crossing a meadow, they saw a young Chilean officer fall from his horse, wounded.

They noticed that he wore the iron cross of Germany on his breast and ran forward to save him.

Before they could reach him, a Peruvian Indian, knife in hand, bounded to the spot, cut the young man's throat from ear to ear and tearing the decoration from his breast, quickly disappeared.

On examining the body it proved to be that of a young captain or lieutenant.