Loud yells and cries followed; then came shouts of triumph and defiance; then all was still, save that a few cannon shot were discharged at regular intervals.
"They have got one of the guns round to fire over the stern, Dick.
There, it has stopped now; evidently the prahus have got round the next corner.

It is a pity that any of them should have escaped, and they would not have done so if the Serpent had remained at the mouth of the creek; but I suppose the captain became anxious at the continuation of the heavy firing here, and so came up to our help.

It is lucky he did so, for, though we might have beaten them off, they were in such tremendous force that I fancy it would have gone hard with us in the long run.

I was beginning to think so myself, Harry." Dr.Horsley had been busy enough from the time that the fighting began in earnest.

Ten men had been killed by balls that had passed through the embrasures, or by kris or lance wounds, and twenty-eight others had been more or less severely wounded.