Don't let a man show himself there.
"Let ten of the others look after the horses.

We shall have the blacks back, in no time." So saying, he ran forward and joined those who were battering at the doors.

Several of them had brought stout axes with them, and the doors speedily gave way.

There was a rush forward.
Mr.Blount fell dead, and Dick Caister's shoulder was broken by a bullet; but there was no check, as the colonists poured into the huts.

There was a short sharp fight, but in two minutes it was over.