They explained that they were seven of the twenty scouts before mentioned,--but here the remainder opened fire upon us from about two hundred paces to the front.
I called out to the burghers, "Charge!" The burghers did so, but as they came to the little hill where we had seen the sparks from the guns they found nobody.

The English had fled, and, as the moon had just gone down, it was too dark to pursue them.
Taking with us the seven prisoners, we continued on our way until the following morning.

We allowed them to retain their clothes.

It was still before the "uitschuddings"[90] period.
The day broke, and after having been turned back on the banks of the Brak River, we marched to the fifteenth ford.

"If we could only get across here," we said.