The path was strewn with corpses.
The headlong race continued.

Three villages had been passed, but there was a fort behind.

This also was carried.

Then there was a halt, on account of the exhaustion caused by the speed with which all had run.

There was no fear that the panic-stricken foe would rally; but there was the possibility of a counter attack, by the Ashantis from the war camp to the left; for it was not known that the panic had spread to these, also, and that they too had fled in disorder, never to return.
The four camps were burnt, one after another; the stockades pulled down; and the force, still half mad with the excitement of the fight, marched back to the fort.