en two hills, and upon the emigrants entering this the Zulu
army first showed itself, but, as though fearing the emigrants, the army
rapidly retired towards the kraal.

"There stand the murderer's soldiers," exclaimed Uys: "let us follow
them." And the emigrants pursued their foes, who shortly showed a
front, and, with fearful yells, charged their invaders. Another
division of the Zulu army, which had remained concealed until the
emigrants had passed it, suddenly emerged and cut off the retreat of the
horsemen, who were thus attacked from front and rear. On either side
too the Zulus sprang up, and the emigrants were thus prevented from
adopting their usual successful mode of warfare; viz. loading whilst
retreating or advancing, halting and firing, and again riding away.

It became evident to all the party that their crafty enemy had inveigled
them into a trap, and had thus drawn them on, until they had entered
this very unfavourable place for fighting on horseback. With a
rapidly-arranged system, the Boers directed their fire upon one portion
of the mass of their enemies, and thus slaying them by hundreds, cleared
a way for themselves out of their difficulty.

Hans, with his two companions, had ridden near their leader from the
beginning of the combat. The heavy weapons carried by these three
hunters, and their accurate aim, had produced terrific effects on the
Zulus, the bullets in many cases having passed through two men and
wounded a third. Hans had been one of the first to see the threatened
danger of being irrecoverably hemmed in by the enemy, and had shouted
the advice, "All fire on the rear Zulus: clear a way out over them."

Had the whole party adopted this plan, there would not have been any
great loss on the part of the white men; unfortunately, however, the
leader Uys turned from the direction in which the main body were firing,
and followed by Hans and about twenty others, dashed through a weak
party of Zulus, and thus hoped to escape.

The Zulus, however, were dangerous even to death: several men who had
fallen wounded raised themselves as they saw their enemies approaching,
and even as the horses trod on their limbs these hard-lived warriors
stabbed the steeds which were above them, and, in several cases, wounded
the riders. Onward rode the emigrants, however, and their escape seemed
certain, although separated from the main body of the party, until they
suddenly found themselves on the edge of