The troops lined its outskirts, while the carriers cut down and burnt the huts.

Then a party set to work to pull down the stockades, which turned out to be nearly three hundred yards long, and crescent shaped--a fact that explained why we had suffered so severely from crossfire.
At last, sheets of flame showed that the work was accomplished, and the company that had gone on in advance returned, and reported the destruction of the village behind.

The little force then gathered, and proceeded to Bantama, a sacred village at which human sacrifices had been perpetrated, for centuries.

This place was razed to the ground.
On the left, the sound of continuous firing told that Major Cobbe was still heavily engaged.

There was, however, no means of moving through the bush to his assistance.