The battle songs and shouts which accompanied the dance reached the ears of the whites with fearful distinctness.

Any other than hearts of oak with courage of steel would have quailed before this terrible display of savage enmity and ferocity.

This dance, to men well skilled in the ways of the Indian warrior, was a sure signal that the next day would be certain to have a fearful history for one party or the other and doubtless for both.

The odds, most assuredly, were apparently greatly in favor of the savage host and against the little band of hardy mountaineers.".