many grass huts, showing that the enemy had only formed the inner circle of the fort (see description, p. 101). Many of the enemy thus surprised fled into the surrounding forest, and the rest took up their position inside the fort. Outside the fort large numbers of guns and caps, bales of cloth, and other loot fell into our hands. The other companies became successively engaged, taking up their position by their right. Lieutenant de Heusch led his company round the fort and attacked it in the rear, hoping to find a weak place. In this he was successful: the palisade not having been finished, there were openings of two or three yards wide in several places, and de Heusch, finding that he could probably effect an entrance before the Arabs had recovered from their surprise, led his company up to the very ditch, where he fell, shot through the breast.