Note 44 — Chapter XVII · [CONTINUATION OF STERN’S COMPOSITION.]
Alphonse Nahuys translation
One day that the insurgents had been beaten, he wandered through a village that had just been taken by the Dutch army, and was therefore44 in flames. Saïdjah knew that the troop that had been destroyed there consisted for the most part of Badoer men. He wandered like a ghost among the houses, which were not yet burned down, and found the corpse of Adinda’s father with a bayonet-wound in the breast. Near him Saïdjah saw the three murdered brothers of Adinda, still boys—children,—and a little further lay the corpse of Adinda, naked, and horribly mutilated.…