Then I shouted to the men to open out and form a line from side to side of the shelving gulley.
Furious at the loss of their two comrades, they obeyed me, and keeping in the water-way myself, together with Indaba-zimbi and the other guns, I gave the word to charge.
Then the real battle began.

It is difficult to say who fought the most fiercely, the natives or the baboons.

The Kaffirs charged along the slopes, and as they came, encouraged by the screams of Hendrika, who rushed to and fro holding the wretched Tota before her as a shield, the apes bounded at them in fury.

Scores were killed by the assegais, and many more fell beneath our gun-shots; but still they came on.

Nor did we go scathless.