Then came another of those hollow bellowings from the rear, and set the herd again in motion.

The head of the column, however, divided.

The immovable form of the trapper, cutting it, as it were, into two gliding streams of life.

Middleton and Paul instantly profited by his example, and extended the feeble barrier by a similar exhibition of their own persons.
For a few moments, the new impulse given to the animals in front, served to protect the thicket.

But, as the body of the herd pressed more and more upon the open line of its defenders, and the dust thickened, so as to obscure their persons, there was, at each instant, a renewed danger of the beasts breaking through.