It was clever of them to take refuge in this hole.

I thought surely that they would fight it out yonder, beneath the fences of the Great Place." "Ah!" she answered, "you forgot that they had Hokosa on their side.

Did you then think to catch him sleeping?
This retreat was Hokosa's counsel.
I learned it from the lips of that wounded captain before they killed him.

Now, it seems that there are but two paths to follow, and you can choose between them.

The one is to send a regiment a day and a half's journey across the cliff top to guard the further mouth of the valley and to wait till these jackals starve in their hole, for certainly they can never come out." "It has started six hours since," said Hafela, "and though the precipices are steep, having the moon to travel by, it should reach the river mouth of the valley before dawn to-morrow, cutting Nodwengo off from the plains, if indeed he should dare to venture out upon them, which, with so small a force, he will not do.