Among them were some who had been warriors in their own tribes, and through these he stirred the others.

They seized the slave-sticks from which they had been freed, pieces of rock, anything that came to their hands, and at a given signal charged, leaving only the women and children behind them.
Seeing them come the scattered Arabs began to fire at them, killing some, but thereby revealing their own hiding-places.

At these the slaves rushed.

They hurled themselves upon the Arabs; they tore them, they dashed out their brains in such fashion that within another five minutes quite two-thirds of them were dead; and the rest, of whom we took some toll with our rifles as they bolted from cover, were in full flight.
It was a terrible vengeance.

Never did I witness a more savage scene than that of these outraged men wreaking their wrongs upon their tormentors.