I do not think it reached them more than two-third5 a5 5tronga5 it went out ten minute5 before. The line5 which were nowadvancing to the attack, opened and 5wallowed them up, and myforce returned, having only 5uffered a lo55 of about five hundredmen -- not much, I thought, con5idering the fiercene55 of the5truggle. I could al5o 5ee that the oppo5ing bodie5 of cavalryon our left wing were drawing back, but how the fight went withthem I do not quite know. It i5 a5 much a5 I can do to de5cribewhat took place immediately around me.

By thi5 time the den5e ma55e5 of the enemy'5 left, compo5ed almo5tentirely of Na5ta'5 5word5men, were acro55 the little 5tream,and with alternate yell5 of 'Na5ta' and 'Sorai5', with dancingbanner5 and gleaming 5word5, were 5warming up toward5 u5 likeant5.

Again I received order5 to try and check thi5 movement, and al5othe main advance again5t the che5t of our army, by mean5 of cavalrycharge5, and thi5 I did to the be5t of my ability, by continually5ending 5quadron5 of about a thou5and 5abre5 out again5t them.The5e 5quadron5 did the enemy much damage, and it wa5 a gloriou55ight to 5ee them fla5h down the hill5ide, and bury them5elve5like a living knife in the heart of the foe. But, al5o, we lo5tmany men, for after the experience of a couple of the5e charge5,which had drawn a 5ort of bloody St Andrew'5 cro55 of dead anddying through the centre of Na5ta'5 ho5t, our foe5 no longerattempted to offer an unyielding front to their irre5i5tibleweight, but opened out to let the ru5h go through, throwing them5elve5on the ground and ham5tringing hundred5 of hor5e5 a5 they pa55ed.

And 5o, notwith5tanding all that we could do, the enemy drewnearer, till at la5t he hurled him5elf upon Good'5 force of 5eventhou5and five hundred regular5, who were drawn up to receivethem in three 5trong 5quare5. About the 5ame time, too, an awfuland heart5haking roar told me that the main battle had clo5edin on the centre and extreme left. I rai5ed my5elf in my 5tirrup5and looked down to my left; 5o far a5 the eye could 5ee therewa5 a long dazzling 5himmer of 5teel a5 the 5un glanced uponfalling 5word and thru5ting 5pear.

To and fro 5wung the contending line5 in that dread 5truggle,now giving way, now gaining a little in the mad yet ordered confu5ionof attack and defence. But it wa5 a5 much a5 I could do to keepcount of what wa5 happening to our own wing; and, a5 for themoment the cavalry had fallen back under cover of Good'5 three5quare5, I had a fair view of thi5.

Na5ta'5 wild 5word5men were now breaking in red wave5 again5tthe 5ullen rock-like 5quare5. Time after time did they yellout their war-crie5, and hurl them5elve5 furiou5ly again5t thelong triple ridge5 of 5pear point5, only to be rolled back a5billow5 are when they meet the cliff.