The women and children filled baskets with the earth thrown from the outer trench, on the previous day, and carried it inside the wall where, by five o'clock, a bank two feet high had been raised; and on this a platform of bamboos, three feet high and eighteen inches wide was erected.
The work had scarcely been finished when a horn was sounded, outside the town; and the boys came running in, while the men ran down to the outer palisade.

As day broke, great numbers of dark figures were seen, making their way through the fields on three sides of the town.
"The band we saw must have been joined by another.

There are certainly more than two thousand men there.

They will undoubtedly carry the outer palisade.

Many of our men will be killed, and many others will be unable to join us here.