As you say, it would be no good coming upon thirty." For four hours the party continued their journey.
"It is six o'clock," Reuben said, looking at his watch.

"We will halt, now, and light that fire." Two of the constables were told off to keep watch, some fifty yards in front; and the others dismounted, and gathered together materials for a fire.

This was soon done, and the smoke mounted straight and clear, a signal to the other two parties to close in.
Suddenly a cry was heard from one of the sentries.

The men stooping round the fire leaped to their feet, just in time to see one of the constables struck from his horse by a boomerang, while a dozen spears whizzed through the air at the other.

He fell forward on his horse, which carried him up to the fire; as he fell from the saddle, as it stopped, he was caught by two of the others.