He then shot the three animals, and as they fell to the ground he cut their throats to stop their kicking.

He then jerked them into the shape of a triangle, and ordered us inside of the barricade.
All this was but the work of a few moments, yet it was not done any too soon, for the Indians had got within three hundred yards of us, and were still advancing, and uttering their demoniacal yells or war-whoops.

There were forty of the red-skins and only three of us.

We were each armed with a Mississippi yager and two Colt's revolvers.
"Get ready for them with your guns, and when they come within fifty yards, aim low, blaze away and bring down your man!" Such was the quick command of Simpson.

The words had hardly escaped from his mouth, when the three yagers almost simultaneously belched forth their contents.