In artillery they were known to have about a hundred guns, many of them (and the fact will need much explaining) more modern and powerful than any which we could bring against them.

Of the quality of this large force there is no need to speak.

The men were brave, hardy, and fired with a strange religious enthusiasm.

They were all of the seventeenth century, except their rifles.

Mounted upon their hardy little ponies, they possessed a mobility which practically doubled their numbers and made it an impossibility ever to outflank them.