The Devil's causeway

He looked at the advancing comrades and they saw and stopped amidshships. Six of them. He employed the gunwale as a chipping block and severed the flag-bearers right arm above the shoulder. The six watched it fall in the river. Tannhauser changed his angle and severed the left arm. The Pilgrim screamed himself breathless and slid downwards. Tannhauser rammed one boot into the flag that shrouded his shoulders and trapped his chest against the transom. He looked at the six again.

"This is the Devil's causeway. Take a kinder road."

The front man turned and pushed his way back against his fellows.
-TTCoP, pg. 707