They clambered over his back, and strove to drive their lances under his bony cuirass.

In the midst of them I saw the Kohen.

By some means he had reached the animal's back, and was crawling along, holding by the coarse shaggy mane.

At length he stopped, and with a sudden effort thrust his lance into the monster's eye.

The vast beast gave a low and terrible howl; his immense tail went flying all about; in his pain he rolled over and over, crushing underneath him in his awful struggles all who were nearest.