Some tried to climb the walls, in hope of either escape or vengeance, only to be flung back by either scimitars or muskets.

It was a terrible scene of despair and death.
After an hour of firing, a gloomy silence descended on the place, now occupied solely by a heap of corpses.

Ali forbade any burial rites on pain of death, and placed over the gate an inscription in letters of gold, informing posterity that six hundred Kardikiotes had there been sacrificed to the memory of his mother Kamco.
When the shrieks of death ceased in the enclosure, they began to be heard in the town.

The assassins spread themselves through it, and having violated the women and children, gathered them into a crowd to be driven to Libokovo.

At every halt in this frightful journey fresh marauders fell on the wretched victims, claiming their share in cruelty and debauchery.