Hark to the shouts behind us!" "And the two lads, Robert and the young Englishman, have gone there.
I think you judge aright about that being their spearhead.

We'll go there too!" Choosing a moment when they were not observed by the others, lest it might be construed as a withdrawal in the face of force, they slipped away from the logs.

It was easy to find such an opportunity as the camp was now full of smoke from the firing, drifting over everything and often hiding the faces of the combatants from their comrades only a few yards away.
But the battle raged most fiercely along the water's edge.

There it was hand to hand, and for a while it looked as if the dusky warriors would make good their footing.

To the defenders it seemed that the lake spewed them forth continually, and that they would overwhelm with weight of numbers.