"I must go back again, Jack." "I shall push on," Jack said.

"Come along, you fellows, we're too far off to see much of it here.

Let us get down as near Balaklava as we can." So saying, the midshipmen set off at a run.

For a few minutes the guns of No.

1 redoubt, the farthest out of all, replied to the Russian fire, and then the Turks, menaced by overwhelming forces, and beyond the possibility of any assistance, left their guns and bolted across the plain towards the second redoubt.