Both were struck with slugs; and Lisle was knocked down, but quickly jumped to his feet again, revolver in hand.

The Ashantis charged with their spears, but the revolver bullets were too much for them and, one by one, they dropped, the last man being shot just as he reached them.

Two were only wounded, but Lisle shot them both.
"It would never do," he said, "for any of them to get to a village, and bring all its occupants upon us.

We are neither of us fit to do much running, and the beggars would be sure to overtake us." "It is horrid," Hallett said, "though I admit that it is necessary." For four days they wandered on.

The path never seemed to run straight.