And surely, I must cease from my thinkings, and go forward with
my telling; for the Humpt Men did come forward at a wondrous quick
run, and did swarm upward on to the rock, as that they did be
panthers; and they made no outcry; but came silent to the killing;
and I saw that they did be something smaller than he that I had but
then slain. And, in verity, I did be all knit in that moment with
speed and cleverness; for I split the heads of three, with but
quick turns of my wrist, as I did wield the Diskos. And I kicked
the face of another, in the same time, with my metal boot, so that
he died; for there did be all my strength and all my skill working
then for our salvation.
Now all this to have been done in but a few beats of the heart,
as I might say; and these men to have been i
