THK MAIN FIGHT. 409 ' victory,' had fuuiid lueuiis to keep t '.v place in chap. this advanced part of the battle-field.* __I!l_ In the earlier niorniug, we know, these Seling- 5</t i^eHoc' hinsk battalions had been more than once over- fclirown ; but, this tinie, they wei-e chased down with fury, and by a soldiery trained in African warfare, who, with tiielocks held up overhead, knew how best to strive tlirough tall brushwood. The remains of the hapless Selinghinsk bat- talions were not only hunted down over the Aqueduct, but finally driven out of the battle- Held; and for this reascni the triumph of the Zouaves and the Algerines proved less barren than the ' false victory ' obtained by our people in the Second Period of the action over much greater numbers of men. Still the conditions were such that no advantages obtained by the Allies on this outlying spur could well react with much power upon the course of the tigliting elsewhere; and indeed we shall learn that the achievement of Dubos and Wimpfen wrought no such effect upon the mind of Canrobert as to draw him into vigorous action.
- One of the Zonaves came up to a .soldier of tho O.^ith, and
patting the man on the back addre.ssed him in good English, saying : ' Thei'e ! it's our turn now : you go to the rear : you ' have had your share.' Captain Sargent, who heard the words, says that the accent and address of the Zouave were such as to show that he nnist have been an educated English- man. This was probably the same Zouave who, when compli- mented by one of our ollicers upon the purity of his English accent, said simply, 'I am an old Eton fellow.' The wing of the 95t]i moved back along the low ground to take its place on Home Ridge.
