| G. A. Henty : Beric the Briton : Chapter IX: The Struggle in the Swamp (5621 words) |
 | Accordingly Aska started up the Ouse in one of the large boats with twelve men to pole it along, and three days afterwards returned with the news that there were some two thousand men with twice that many women and children scattered among the upper swamps. |
| Aska remained in command at the river fort, where the force was maintained at its full strength, the boat party being drawn entirely from the two islands. |
| Aska's party had also returned laden with plunder, and as soon as the whole were united a division of this was made. |
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