Even the foreign engineers were amazed at tactics heretofore unknown to them, and said then and there, in the presence of all, "These Zaporozhtzi are brave fellows.

That is the way men in other lands ought to fight." And they advised that the cannons should at once be turned on the camps.

Heavily roared the iron cannons with their wide throats; the earth hummed and trembled far and wide, and the smoke lay twice as heavy over the plain.

They smelt the reek of the powder among the squares and streets in the most distant as well as the nearest quarters of the city.

But those who laid the cannons pointed them too high, and the shot describing too wide a curve flew over the heads of the camps, and buried themselves deep in the earth at a distance, tearing the ground, and throwing the black soil high in the air.