eight o'clock
There was , as he said , much to do . Everywhere there were proofs of the rigidness of the siege . Even in the houses in which they were quartered , which had been occupied by the enemy , the walls were pitted with bullets . At eight o'clock a party of men went out , to destroy the stockades and burn the enemy 's camps . In the one in which the Ashanti commander in chief had his headquarters were found over a thousand huts and bamboo camp beds . The troops now saw the method of investment for the first time . It consisted in making large entrenchments , to barricade all the roads and tracks .