No fear dey get dere.

Dey fight when we go back." "That's all right.

Bobitu's fellows, and the bush rangers, will be quite enough to tackle at once.

As for the others, we will make short work of them, if they venture to attack us on the march back.
They fight pluckily enough against men on foot, because they know they can make off when they like; but they can't stand a charge of horsemen." Although not so long as the journey on the preceding day, the men were heartily glad when, at about four o'clock in the afternoon, the halt was called, and they heard that the place where the bush rangers were supposed to be was but four miles away.

After some consultation, it was decided that Jim should lead half the band--consisting of ten constables under O'Connor, and fifteen colonists--round through the hills, to a position near the mouth of the valley in which the blacks and bush rangers were likely to be; and that, when he had posted them there, he should come back again to their present halting place, and lead forward the party under Reuben.
"Mind," Reuben said, before the others started, "we don't want to attack the blacks, unless they show fight.