Oh! awake, awake, Elephant! Are you asleep with Mameena in a hut?
Unloose your spears, Child of the King, and at them as they mount the slope.

Behold!" he went on, "it is the Son of Dunn that begins the battle! Did I not tell you that we must look to the white men to show us the way?
Peep through your tube, Macumazahn, and tell me what passes." So I "peeped," and, the telescope which John Dunn had kindly left with me being good though small, saw everything clearly enough.

He rode up almost to the point of the left horn of the Usutu, waving a white handkerchief and followed by his small force of police and Natal Kafirs.
Then from somewhere among the Usutu rose a puff of smoke.

Dunn had been fired at.
He dropped the handkerchief and leapt to the ground.

Now he and his police were firing rapidly in reply, and men fell fast among the Usutu.
They raised their war shout and came on, though slowly, for they feared the bullets.