Also I had forgotten the horsemen.

As our charge slackened owing to the complication in front, these arrived on our flanks like two thunderbolts.

We faced about and did our best to meet the onslaught, of which the net result was that both our left and right lines were pierced through about fifty yards behind the baggage camels.

Luckily for us the very impetuosity of the Black Kendah rush deprived it of most of the fruits of victory, since the two squadrons, being unable to check their horses, ended by charging into each other and becoming mixed in inextricable confusion.

Then, I do not know who gave the order, we wheeled our camels in and fell upon them, a struggling, stationary mass, with the result that many of them were speared, or overthrown and trampled.
"I have said we, but that is not quite correct, at any rate so far as Marut, Hans, I and about fifteen camelmen were concerned.