And all the while I was choking with impatience, and gabbling prayers to myself.
The men on the other side had begun to use ball-cartridge.

I could see through a gap the centre of the river, and it was filled with a mass of struggling men and horses'.

I remember that it amazed me that no shot was fired in return.

Then I remembered the vow, and was still more amazed at the power of a ritual on that savage horde.
The column was moving past me to the right.

It was a disorderly rabble which obeyed Henriques' orders.