There was no possibility of getting a horse in the night to aid us.
Besides the little children we caught up such articles of clothing and provisions as we could get hold of in the dark, for we durst not light a candle or even stir the fire.

All this was done with the utmost dispatch and in the silence of death.

The greatest care was taken not to awaken the youngest child.
"To the rest it was enough to say _Indian_, and not a whisper was heard afterward.

Thus it often happened that the whole number belonging to a fort, who were in the evening at their homes, were all in their little fortress before the dawn of the next morning.

In the course of the next day their household furniture was brought in by men under arms.