With six Ghoorkhas he had driven the enemy from one hedge, when he discovered a party of about sixty men behind a wall, twenty yards distant.
"'Now, my lads,' he said, 'we have got to run the gauntlet, but you need not be afraid of their fire.

Seeing us so close to them, it is sure to be wild.' "Then, with a cheer, we dashed across the open.

The enemy blazed at us, but their fire was wild and confused; and we were among them before they could reload, killing a dozen, and sending the rest to the right about, many of them wounded.
"On returning to the camp, we found that there were only fifty rounds left for the Snider rifles, and thirty rounds each for the Martinis.

Strict orders were therefore given that no one was to fire till the enemy were within close range.

However, there was no doubt that the fight was all taken out of them, by the spirit with which those two little sorties had been made.