text:  There was a cord and a metal jar attached to it for lowering into the pit; but Paulett as he looked at the attitudes of the remaining skeletons and observed how they seemed distorted in death fancied that they must have brought up either poisoned water or waters so intensely salt as to drive them mad with the additional thirst; and that some had died on the instant some had lingered some had sought to succour others and yielded sooner or later to the same influence