Two of them had crossed the rivulet, before being wounded; and these said that they believed all the white officers had been killed, but that they thought most of the troops had got away.
"It is more than they deserved," Stanley said indignantly.

"I don't say much about the Mugs.

They had very little drill or discipline and, naturally, were afraid of the Burmese, who had long been their masters; but if the sepoys had kept together under their officers, they might all have escaped, for the Burmese would never have been able to break their ranks." "Some of the officers had been killed, and most of them wounded, before the retreat began, sahib," one of the sepoys said apologetically, "and they were ten to one against us." "Yes, I know that; but you who had fought before should have known well enough that, as long as you kept together, you could have beaten them off; and they would have been glad enough to have given up the pursuit, at last.

No doubt they all wanted to have a share in the plunder of Ramoo." "What do you think that they are going to do with us, sahib ?" "From what they said as they brought me here, I think that we shall be sent to Ava, or Amarapura.

They lie close together, and the court is sometimes at one place and sometimes at the other.