The sudden fall of so many gave him time to launch out his great fists a second time.

They fell with the weight of sledge-hammers on the faces of two more of his opponents, flattening their noses, and otherwise disfiguring their features, besides stretching them on the ground.

At the same time, Corrie flung his empty pistol in the face of a man who attempted to assault his companion on the right flank unawares, and laid him prone on the earth.

Another savage, who made the same effort on the left, received a gash on the thigh from the broken saber that sent him howling from the scene of conflict.
Thus were eight savages disposed of in about as many seconds.
But there is a limit to the powers and the prowess of man.

The savages, on seeing the fall of so many of their companions, rushed in on Bumpus before he could recover himself for another blow.