The British flags were, of course, fired upon; and I hear that one of them was struck down, but I think every one must be privately of the mind that it was fired upon and fell, in a place where it had little business to be shown.
Such was the military epilogue to the ill-judged adventure of Fangalii; it was difficult for failure to be more complete.

But the other consequences were of a darker colour and brought the whites immediately face to face in a spirit of ill-favoured animosity.

Knappe was mourning the defeat and death of his country-folk, he was standing aghast over the ruin of his own career, when Mullan boarded him.

The successor of Leary served himself, in that bitter moment, heir to Leary's part.

And in Mullan, Knappe saw more even than the successor of Leary,--he saw in him the representative of Klein.