I cannot say that I felt as hopeful as my friend professed to do, still there appeared to be no other means of escaping the bulls, and getting back to the boat.  Should we wait till the morning the brutes would probably espy us, and run a tilt at us as before.  We had provisions to last us for many days, but we had no liquid, with the exception of a little rum and water, which, although we had carefully husbanded it, was very low in the flask.  A breeze had sprung up from the east, and it was already rather cold on the top of the rock; so, making up our fire, we sat down by it.  We were amused at the way in which the bulls occasionally came and had a look at us; as much as, Jerry said, to ask, "Well, when are you coming down to let us give you a toss?  We don't intend to go away till we've tried it on.  We are at home here, you know, so we are in no hurry."  Provoked, as he declared, at their impudence, he at last seized a bundle of burning grass which, he had twisted into a torch, and when a bull came near he hove it at his head. The flaming mass caught on his horns, and certainly had the effect of making him turn tail, and rush bellowing off from the rock; but it had another effect, and a most disastrous one, on which we had not calculated.  Galloping on, the animal very soon freed himself from his burning head-dress by sending it into the middle of a large clump of tussac grass.