Slover and I both advised an immediate retreat.

Crawford would not listen to us.

I tried to explain to him that ever since the Guadenhutten massacre keen-eyed Indian scouts had been watching the border.

The news of the present expedition had been carried by fleet runners to the different Indian tribes and they were working like hives of angry bees.

The deserted Shawnee village meant to me that the alarm had been sounded in the towns of the Shawnees and the Delawares; perhaps also in the Wyandot towns to the north.