He was severely wounded on the left shoulder, but he said nothing about it, and poured such a shower of lead into the tree that it was, at once, deserted by the enemy.
The din was deafening.

Every white man belonging to the leading company had been hit, and the ground near the gun and Maxim was strewn with the dead and dying.
Major Melliss gave the word: "Mass the buglers, form up left company, and both charge!" The buglers stood up, waiting for the word to blow.

One of them was instantly wounded but, though the blood was streaming down his face, he stuck to his work.

The word "Sound the way!" was given, and the Hausas sprang wildly forward and dashed down the slope, Major Melliss at their head.
Contrary to custom, the Ashantis were not terrified at the sight of the bayonets and, through their loopholes, kept up a heavy fire.
The assailants, however, soon reached the stockade.

Two white men scrambled up the timbers, which were slippery with blood; and jumped down, eight feet, on the other side, where they were soon joined by numbers of their men.