A party would, of course, be left at the breach when they sally out and, the moment the last man entered, would replace and lash the bamboos in their position.
"If, however, we are hotly pursued, you and I, with your own guards, should remain outside, and keep them at bay until all the bamboos but one are replaced.

This will leave an opening sufficient for one man, and we must fall back fighting.

They certainly would not venture to follow us through so narrow a passage." Two hundred and fifty of the men were brought inside the wall, and the rajah explained to them the duty upon which they would be employed.

He told off fifty of them as torch bearers; explained to all, carefully, the plan Harry had devised; gave strict orders that no sound, whatever, must be made until they reached the houses and, at Harry's request, impressed upon them the absolute necessity for not allowing their ardour to carry them too far; but that torches must be thrown down, and everyone run back, as soon as the horn sounded.
There was no doubt that the order was a satisfactory one.

The men raised their krises and spears, and shouted with joy.