For, just as our half-hour was crawling to an end, with a unanimous yell a crowd of wild men with weapons in their hands poured in through the great door and ran shouting at our position.
At the same time the window at the end of the passage opened and a man leaped through.

Him I sharply attended to with the axe, and stood waiting for the next.

He also came, but not through the window.

He ran at me, head first, through the door, and, being stricken down, completely blocked it up.

Good service! And a usefully bulky man he was.