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So I "peeped," and, the telescope which John Dunn had kindly left with

h He rode

up al a white

handkerchief and followed by his small force of police and Natal Kafirs

Then fro the Usutu rose a puff of smoke Dunn had been

fired at

He dropped the handkerchief and leapt to the ground Now he and his

police were firing rapidly in reply, andthe Usutu

They raised their war shout and cah slowly, for they feared

the bullets Step by step John Dunn and his people were thrust back,

fighting gallantly against overwhel odds They were level with us,

not a quarter of a mile to our left They were pushed past us They

vanished a while passed before ever I

heard what became of the done their work and wrapped themselves round

Umbelazi's army as the nippers of a wasp close about a fly (why did

not Uan

his charge Twenty or thirty thousand strong, regiiment,

Cetewayo's men rushed up the slope, and there, near the crest of