I glanced towards the Boers, and saw that they were all of them on their knees.

I glanced towards the Zulus, and saw that they were watching as, I think, they had never watched anything before, for to them this was a new excitement.
Then I fixed my eyes upon the bird.
Its last circle was accomplished.

Before it pounced it hung on wide, outstretched wings, as the others had done, its head towards me.

I drew a deep breath, lifted the rifle, got the foresight dead upon its breast, and touched the hair-trigger.

As the charge exploded I saw the aasvogel give a kind of backward twist.