Their efforts, however, were in vain.

Never did the Amazons fight with more reckless bravery; but the position was too strong for them, and at last, after upwards of a thousand of the assailants had fallen, the attack was given up, and the Dahomans retired from the wall followed by the exulting shouts of the men of Abeokuta.
The loss of the defenders was small.

Some ten or twelve had been killed with slugs.

Three or four times that number were more or less severely wounded about the head or shoulders with the same missiles.

Frank had a nasty cut on the cheek, and Firewater and Bacon were both streaming with blood.
There was no chance of a renewal of the attack that day.