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| 22 | 269 | When it View more quotes about began">began to sound, we witnessed, as expected, the movement down the defile, marked by a hundred or more torches, of the mass of Pani reserves. |
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| 22 | 266 | Our own position was precarious, but I was sure the defensive lines which Cabot and I had joined, commanded by Lord Nishida, had won the time needed for the withdrawal of most of our surviving forces. |
| 22 | 267 | They, at least, would return to the ship. |
| 22 | 268 | We waited in place, as did our foes, for the signal of the drum. |
| 22 | 269 | When it began to sound, we witnessed, as expected, the movement down the defile, marked by a hundred or more torches, of the mass of Pani reserves. |
| 22 | 270 | It did not seem likely we would return to the ship. |
| 22 | 271 | A fellow two or three men to my left, suddenly turned and fled toward the beach. |
| 22 | 272 | I felt much like following him, and a wash of panic and terror seemed to seize my whole body. |