But his stomach rejected even that delicate food.
They then, by very expressive signs, told him that if he did not take some nourishment he would die and be buried there--"a thing," Crockett writes, "I was confoundedly afraid of, myself." Crockett inquired how far it was to any house.

They signified to him, by signs, that there was a white man's cabin about a mile and a half from where they then were, and urged him to let them conduct him to that house.

He rose to make the attempt.

But he was so weak that he could with difficulty stand, and unsupported could not walk a step.
One of these kind Indians offered to go with him; and relieving Crockett of the burden of his rifle, and with his strong arm supporting and half carrying him, at length succeeded in getting him to the log hut of the pioneer.

The shades of night were falling.