Our own lives depend upon getting them quickly buried.

We have no such custom of cutting off heads, in our country, but that is no affair of mine.

But the bodies now lie in what is, in fact, a grave; and a few hours' labour would be the means of saving the town from a pestilence, later on.
"When the enemy depart, I should advise you to build a great mound of earth over the trench.

It will be a record of your grand defence and, by placing a strong stockade along the top, you would strengthen your position greatly.

I should recommend you, in that case, to clear the space within it, as far as the wall, of all houses; and to build the town entirely outside it." There was great dissatisfaction, among the natives, at being prevented from taking what seemed to them their natural trophies.
But when the rajah informed them that the order was given in consequence of the white officer's advice, they set about the work readily and, before morning, the dead were all hidden from sight by a deep layer of earth.
The next day passed without incident.