[Monsieur Violet by Frederick Marryat]@TWC D-Link bookMonsieur Violet CHAPTER X 6/10
The enemy did not retreat; raising their war-whoop, on they rushed with a determination truly heroical. The guns were again fired, and also the whole of our musketry, after which a party of forty of our men made a sortie.
This last charge was sudden and irresistible; the enemy fled in every direction, leaving behind their dead and wounded.
That evening we received a reinforcement of thirty-eight men from the settlement, with a large supply of buffalo meat and twenty fine young fat colts.
This was a great comfort to us, as, for several days we had been obliged to live upon our dried fish. During seven days we saw nothing of the enemy; but our scouts scoured in every direction, and our long-boat surprised, in a bay opposite George Point, thirty-six large boats, in which the Callapoos had come from their territory.
The boats were destroyed, and their keepers scalped.
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