They then carefully extinguished the embers, lest the flames should guide several hundred warriors in a midnight attack.
Mr.Carson was not aware of the strength of the Indian fortifications on the island.

Not wishing to give them any time to strengthen their works, with the earliest dawn he put his men in motion.

They crossed the ice to the island, where they found only silence and desolation.

Not an Indian was to be seen.

In the night the savages had retreated, and were then probably at a distance of leagues, no one could tell where.