These were the two men who had been so inhumanly murdered.

Immediate search was made for the canoe, and it was found a little above the spot where the men were hiding.

It was a very large buoyant birch canoe, constructed for the transportation of a numerous household, with all their goods, and such game as they might take.
This they loaded with warriors to the water's edge, and they began vigorously to paddle over to the island.

When the one solitary Indian man there saw this formidable array approaching he fled into the woods.
The warriors landed, and captured the two women and the little children, ten in number, and conveyed their prisoners, with the plunder of the wigwams, back across the creek to their own encampment.

This was not a very brilliant achievement to be accomplished by an army of two hundred warriors aided by a detachment of sixteen white men under Major Russel.