This was the inviolable sign of peace! Down fell the spears.

Forward, with a heavy sigh of relief, and upward glance of gratitude, came the friends of peace.

The impulsive natives rushed forth with tears and cries, as each saw in the other's rank a loved one of the past.
"It was a jubilee of joy.

A festival followed.

And, while tears flowed at the recital of woe, a corrobory of pleasant laughter closed the eventful day." In four years, without the spilling of a drop of blood, Robinson brought them all in, willing captives, and delivered them to the white governor, and ended the war which powder and bullets, and thousands of men to use them, had prosecuted without result since 1804.
Marsyas charming the wild beasts with his music--that is fable; but the miracle wrought by Robinson is fact.