Outside the fort nothing was to be seen but burnt-down houses and putrid bodies.
Why is it that a bucket of water soon becomes putrid, but frozen remains sweet forever?
The smell by now was so putrid that we were all feeling ill.
It is important that no more should be supplied at a time than is necessary, as most animals rapidly foul their food, and except in a few special cases, wild animals are peculiarly liable to the evil results of stale or putrid substances.
Nevertheless, instances were adduced where the most careful heating of yolk of egg, milk, hay-infusions, &c., had failed, - the boiled infusions, &c., turning putrid and swarming with bacteria after a few hours.
