Already the slaughter of their assailants had been very great, while very few of their own number had fallen.
An hour later, large parties of the enemy advanced to the stockade.
This they did unmolested, as the distance was too great for anything like certainty of aim.

The rajah again took his place by Harry's side.

Presently, at the sound of a horn, a great flight of arrows rose high in the air from behind the stockade.
"They are fire arrows!" the rajah exclaimed.

"I will send a hundred men down, to help the women to extinguish them;" and he himself descended, an officer following, with the men.
The women were all seated close to the platforms and, as the arrows came raining down, they ran out; being joined by the rajah and his men.

Had the leafy roofs remained in their place, the whole would have been in a blaze in two or three minutes.