The horses had an instinctive dread of the Indian.

Sharing the alarm of their riders, they became frantic with terror, and needed no urging in their impetuous race.

The Indians were often within sixty feet of their victims, and bullets and arrows flew thickly around the trappers.

But both parties being on the fiercest run, and there being interposing obstacles of rocks, and shrubs, and trees, accurate aim was impossible.

As the fugitives drew near their camp, the Indians relinquished the pursuit.