The news of the death of their leader had doubtless spread, and its effect was aided by several other chiefs falling under Harry's fire and, ere long, not one of their followers remained inside the palisade.

Half an hour later, the lookout from the top of the rajah's house shouted that the whole of the assailants were retiring, in a body, towards the forest.
Excited by their victory, the rajah's troops would have sallied out in pursuit; but Harry dissuaded him from permitting it.
"They must have lost, altogether, over a thousand of their men; but they are still vastly more numerous than your people, and nothing would suit them better than that you should follow them, and give them a chance of avenging the loss they have suffered." "But the rajah will come again.

He will never remain quiet, under the disgrace." "He will trouble you no more," Harry said.

"I shot him myself, and six or seven of his principal chiefs." "You are indeed my friend!" the rajah exclaimed, earnestly, when the words were translated to him.

"Then there is a hope that I may have peace.