First must you burn it with fire or grind it to dust with stones.

Moreover, I give this command to all in case of the priests in charge of it should fail me, that they set flame to the brushwood that is built up with the stacks of corn, so that, after all, those of our enemies who escape may die of famine." Instantly and without murmuring, for never did I see more perfect discipline than that which prevailed among these poor people, the orders given by Harut, who in addition to his office as head priest was a kind of president of what was in fact a republic, were put in the way of execution.

Company by company the men appointed to escort the women and children departed through the gateway of the second court, each company turning in the gateway to salute us who remained, by raising their spears, till all were gone.

Then we, the three hundred and fifty who were left, marshalled ourselves as the Greeks may have done in the Pass of Thermopylae.
First stood I and my riflemen, to whom all the remaining ammunition was served out; it amounted to eight rounds per man.

Then, ranged across the court in four lines, came the spearmen armed with lances and swords under the immediate command of Harut.