They were followed by others.

Soon there were enough stalwart savages there easily to overpower, in a hand-to-hand fight, the feeble garrison of but six men.

Carson's suspicions were excited, and watching their movements with an eagle eye, he soon discovered that they all had concealed weapons.
Without the slightest apparent alarm he quietly summoned his men, with their rifles, into one corner of the enclosure.

Then in his usual soft voice he directed each man to take deliberate aim at some one of the prominent chiefs.

He himself presented the muzzle of his rifle within a few yards of the head of the leader of the now astonished and affrighted party.