They had made one big fire and many little ones, and looked extremely cheerful, what with the smell of cooking and the dancing flame.

Their horses were picketed together in five lines with only a few guards, so that their capture was an easy matter.

We caught them entirely by surprise and fell on them from three sides at once, our foot-men from the ridge delivering such a hot fire that some of us were hit.

I looked long for the Turk who had fouled the water, and for the other one who had lanced the child's body, but failed to identify either of them.

I found two who looked like them, crawling out from under a heap of slain, and shot them through the head; but as to whether I slew the right ones or not I do not know.
Three officers we made prisoner, making five that we had to care for.