But not one escaped.

They were all overtaken and felled to the earth.

I saw, however, that they were not all killed.

Indeed, their enemies, now that they were conquered, seemed anxious to take them alive; and they succeeded in securing fifteen, whom they bound hand and foot with cords, and, carrying them up into the woods, laid them down among the bushes.

Here they left them, for what purpose I knew not, and returned to the scene of the late battle, where the remnant of the party were bathing their wounds.
Out of the forty blacks that composed the attacking party, only twenty- eight remained alive, two of whom were sent into the bush to hunt for the women and children.