passage: We were cornered in a sort of way already .
  But these butchers up the cavern had been surprised , they were probably scared , and they had no special weapons , only those little hatchets of theirs .
  And that way lay escape .
  Their sturdy little forms -- ever so much shorter and thicker than the mooncalf herds -- were scattered up the slope in a way that was eloquent of indecision .
  I had the moral advantage of a mad bull in a street .
  But for all that , there seemed a tremendous crowd of them .
  Very probably there was .
  Those Selenites down the cleft had certainly some infernally long spears .
  It might be they had other surprises for us .... But , confound it !
  if we charged up the cave we should let them up behind us , and if we did n't those little brutes up the cave would probably get reinforced .
  Heaven alone knew what tremendous engines of warfare -- guns , bombs , terrestrial torpedoes -- this unknown world below our feet , this vaster world of which we had only pricked the outer cuticle , might not presently send up to our destruction .
  It became clear the only thing to do was to charge !
  It became clearer as the legs of a number of fresh Selenites appeared running down the cavern towards us .
query_and_answer: Which way is the escape ? || Up the cavern
evidences: But these butchers up the cavern had been surprised , they were probably scared , and they had no special weapons , only those little hatchets of theirs . And that way lay escape .