“It looks so, captain.”
“What an awful fate!”
“At least we will die game!”
Wallis shut his lips tightly and resumed the firing. He made every shot tell. But presently he found that he had but three cartridges left.
And the barbarians were every moment growing bolder. A hand-to-hand combat would be sure to be fatal.
A few moments more and they would certainly have overwhelmed the two brave men, had it not been for an intervention.
And this came from a most unexpected quarter.
Suddenly, what seemed like a veritable bolt of lightning dropped from the sky, and right among the barbarians.
There was a fearful explosion.
Tons of ice and snow rose to the height of fifty feet in the air. Dozens of the barbarians were torn in shreds.