An Indian runner soon made his appearance, with the tidings that more than a thousand Creek warriors had, that day, crossed the Coosa River, but a few leagues south of them, at what was called the Ten Islands, and were on the march to attack an American force, which, under General Jackson, was assembling on another portion of the Coosa River.
The friendly Indians were so greatly alarmed that they immediately fled.

Crockett felt bound to carry back this intelligence as speedily as possible to the headquarters from which he had come.

He had traversed a distance of about sixty miles in a southerly direction.
They returned, by the same route over which they had passed.

But they found that a general alarm had pervaded the country, Radcliff and his family, abandoning everything, had fled, they knew not where.

When they reached the Cherokee town of which we have before spoken, not a single Indian was to be seen.