Their songs could be distinctly heard in the camp, and as they danced, with hideous contortions, in the gathering shades of night around their fires, it seemed as though a band of demons had broken loose from Pandemonium.
With the first dawn of the morning, a large party of these warriors approached the fort to reconnoitre.

They were evidently astonished in beholding the preparations which had been made to receive them.

They could not, from any direction, approach within an eighth of a mile, without presenting their bodies a perfect target for the rifles of men who never missed their aim.

These cautious warriors did not venture within half a mile of the fortress.

But they were keen-eyed and sagacious men.