Ostik kept close to them, carrying Frank's Winchester carbine and a double barreled shotgun.
"This is hot," Mr.Goodenough said, as the enemy's slugs and bullets whizzed in a storm over the edge of the parapet, killing many of the defenders, and rendering it difficult for the others to take accurate aim.

This, however, the Abeokutans did not try to do.

Stooping below the parapet, they fitted their arrows to the string, or loaded their muskets, and then, standing up, fired hastily at the approaching throng.
The walls were about twenty-five feet high inside, but the parapet gave an additional height of some four feet outside.

They were about three feet thick at the top, and but a limited number of men could take post there to oppose the storming party.

Strong bodies were placed farther along on the wall to make a rush to sweep the enemy off should they gain a footing.