I think we have pretty well silenced the battery for the present.
Here are my glasses.

With them you can easily make out the fellows among the leaves." "I see them," the Doctor said, handing the glasses to Farquharson; "we will soon get them out of that.

Now, Farquharson, you take that fellow out on the lower branch to the right; I will take the one close to the trunk on the same branch." Laying their rifles on the upper row of sandbags, the two men took a steady aim.

They fired almost together, and two bodies were seen to fall from the tree.
"Well shot!" the Major exclaimed.

"There are something like a dozen of them up there; but they will soon clear out if you keep that up." "They are not more than two hundred yards away," the Doctor said, "and firing from a rest we certainly ought not to miss them at that distance.
Give me the glasses again." A similar success attended the next two shots, and then a number of figures were seen hastily climbing down.
"Give them a volley, gentlemen," the Major said.
A dozen guns were fired, and three more men dropped, and an angry yell from the natives answered the shout of triumph from the garrison.
"Will you go down, Mr.Hunter, and tell the ladies that we have silenced the guns for the present, and that no one has received a scratch?
Now, let us see what damage their balls have effected." This was found to be trifling.