If that were correct, they must get near enough to attack us with assegais.

They are more dangerous so.

I remembered what an old Boer had said to me at Buluwayo: "The Zulu with his assegai is an enemy to be feared; with a gun, he is a bungler." We pounded on up the hill.

It was deadly work, with those brutes at our heels.

The child on Hilda's arm was visibly wearying her.