At the same moment, a loud scream from the other tower showed that there also we had had the same success.
The Umbiquas retired precipitately with their dead, uttering a yell of disappointment and rage, to which three of our boys, being ordered so to do, responded with a shrill war-whoop of defiance.

This made the Umbiquas quite frantic, but they were now more prudent.

The arrows that had killed their comrades were children-arrows; still there could be no doubt but that they had been shot by warriors.

They retired behind a projecting rock on the bank of the river, only thirty yards in our front, but quite protected from our missiles.

There they formed a council of war, and waited for their men and canoes, which they expected to have arrived long before.