When within about five hundred yards of us, the main or centre column halted at the root of a tongue of open plain which ran up into the hill, to give time to the other divisions to circumvent our position, which was shaped more or less in the form of a horse-shoe, with its two points facing towards the town of Loo.
Guregandik bostehun yardatara edo zeudenean, erdiko zutabe nagusia mendian gora egiten zuen belaze baten hasieran gelditu zen, beste taldeek gure lekua inguratzeko denbora izan zezaten, mendiak gutxi gorabehera ferra baten itxura bait zuen, bi adarrak Looko hirira begira zituela.