The Indian at that moment wheeled to run, when one of the whites shot him dead.

By this time the alarm was general and the assailants fled.
There was good reason to believe that the Klamath Indians had set the snare for Lieutenant Gillespie and his escort.

As it was, the wonder was that Fremont's command did not suffer to a greater extent; for having no sentinels on duty, the warriors might have perfected their schemes in security and killed a large number.
The Indian who drove five arrows into the left breast of the Delaware, three of which pierced his heart, was the leader of the attacking party.
He had an English half axe slung to his wrist by a cord, and forty arrows were left in his quiver.

Carson pronounced them the most beautiful and warlike missiles he had ever seen.
As may be supposed the explorers "slept on their arms" for the rest of the night, but the assailants had fled.
They had killed three of the explorers, besides wounding another of the Delawares, who took characteristic revenge by scalping the leader that had been left where he fell.

The dead were given the best burial possible.