“huge clubs hardened in the fire” and “plunged their daggers in the breasts of those who put up a stout resistance. . . . The whole field was strewn with corpses. . . . A number had fallen by sling-shot or had been transfixed by shafts tipped with metal. In some cases the head had been split in two by a sword-stroke through crown and forehead, and hung down on both shoulders, a most gruesome sight.”
