Joubert gave him another shot and he fell on the top of us.

Four Englishmen got hold of Jan Luttig and struck him on the head with their rifles and stabbed him in the stomach with a bayonet.

He seized two of them by the throat and shouted "Help, boys!" His two nearest comrades shot two of them, and the other two bolted.

Then the English came up in numbers, about eight hundred, along the footpath' (there were two hundred on the hill, but the exaggeration is pardonable in the darkness), 'and we lay as quiet as mice along the bank.

Farther on the English killed three of our men with bayonets and wounded two.
In the morning we found Captain Paley and twenty-two of them killed and wounded.' It seems evident that Reitz means that his own little party were eight men, and not that that represented the force which intercepted the retiring riflemen.