It was an admirable manoeuvre, for when presently we did strike, we caught them swiftly on the flank and crumpled them up.

My word! we went through those fellows like a knife through butter; they had as much chance against the rush of our camels as a brown-paper screen has against a typhoon.

Over they rolled in heaps while the White Kendah spitted them with their lances.
"The Child is top dog! My money on the Child," reflected I in irreverent ecstasy.

But that exultation was premature, for those Black Kendah were by no means all dead.

Presently I saw that scores of them had appeared among the camels, which they were engaged in stabbing, or trying to stab, in the stomach with their spears.