Part Two of Raid on the Sher-Li Temple or: The Fort of Jewel-Eye

Capt. 'Biff' Plotz of the United States Marine Corps. presents his ultimatum to Capt. Alfred Hyde-Davis, commander of the sepoy garrison at the palisade fort, but a sentry calls attention to the appearance of pirate junks in the bay.
As four units of pirates stream onto the shore, the officers put together a hasty agreement whereby the Americans will move forward to protect the mission, enabling the sepoy and native force to deploy in the plain. Capt. Plotz will send the USS San Juan Hill to engage the pirate junks; in return, Capt. Hyde-Davis agrees to allow the Americans to take the elephant idol, though his authority to allow this is doubtful, to say the least.

The pirates move forward. Junk Sank Sosumi sends one unit of pistol-armed cutthroats in a headlong rush for the idol, and one unit up the hill toward the mission. Hoo Flung Dung advances his unit of rifles to the center and sends a unit of swordsmen to the village.

The Governor and his British regulars are surprised to see a battle forming as they emerge from the pass. The troops rapidly deploy behind a low hill. The gun sets up on a hill just behind them. A heliograph team is sent up the mountain to signal the gunboat for help.The US Marines move to the center to protect the motor truck moving along the road to the temple.

From the gate of the village, Mgumbi and the outnumbered native warriors rush the rifle-armed pirates . The move is unexpected. Hoo's rifles had been deployed toward the British to the west, and only a few can bear on the native's rush, but the natives are apparently unnerved by the glint of all those rifle and pistol barrels and fail to complete the charge, retiring to the village.

Sister Clarissa's local militia finds it can bring only two rifles to bear as Junk Sank's pirates rush the wall from the mission's extreme right. This volley is ineffective, but the defenders have time to redeploy before the pirates reach the wall.

Hoo's rifles split their fire between the village and the Imperial troopers, with small effect.

As Junk Sank's pistoleers charge between the hills they are cut down in droves by a hail of fire from the combined British and American units. Their morale wavers, and they turn tail for the junks.

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