embarkation.

Here seventeen or eighteen boats were collected. The way down to the river
was steep, for the bank of the Ganges is here rather high, and covered
with thick jungle. At the top of the ghat is a small Hindoo temple. The
wounded and sick were carried down the bank and placed in the boats, the
ladies and children took their places, the officers and men then followed.
When all was ready, the Nana's officer suddenly called the native boatmen
to come ashore to receive their wages for the passage down to Benares.

Then, as if by magic, from out the thick jungle on both sides of the path
to the ghat, hundreds of Sepoys rushed; while at the same moment lines of
bushes fell to the ground, and showed a number of cannon, all placed in
position. In a moment a tremendous fire was opened upon the unhappy
fugitives. Numbers of them were at once killed in the boats; some jumped
into the water, and, pushing the boats afloat, made for the opposite
shore; while others leaped into the river on the deeper side and tried to
escape by swimming. But upon the other shore were enemies as bloodthirsty
as those they left behind, for there the Sepoys of the Seventeenth Native
Regiment, who had mutinied at Azimghur, were posted, and these cut off the
retreat of the fugitives there. Then all the boats, with the exception of
two or three which had drifted down stream, followed by bands of Sepoys
with cannon on either bank, were brought back to the starting-place, which
is known, and will be known through all time, as "the slaughter ghat."
There all the men still alive were taken on shore and shot; while the
women and children, many of them bleeding from wounds, were taken off to a
house formerly belonging to the medical department of the European troops,
called the Subada Khotee.

Dick and Ned Warrener were in one of the boats which were still ashore