I fancy I only got a rap on the head, which knocked me stupid.

How has it ended ?" "They are repulsed at every point for a while.

The loss is dreadfully heavy; we have quite two thousand killed and wounded, and they must have lost three.

Look, there's a sight!" and he pointed to long lines of men advancing by fours.
In the centre of every group of four, and being borne by it, was a kind of hide tray, of which a Kukuana force always carries a quantity, with a loop for a handle at each corner.

On these trays--and their number seemed endless--lay wounded men, who as they arrived were hastily examined by the medicine men, of whom ten were attached to a regiment.
If the wound was not of a fatal character the sufferer was taken away and attended to as carefully as circumstances would allow.