Mr.Hunt received them with great coldness, and, when they had finished their story, gave them a pipe to smoke.

He then called up all hands, stationed sentinels in different quarters, but told them to keep as vigilant an eye within the camp as without.
The warriors were evidently baffled by these precautions, and, having smoked their pipe, and vapored off their valor, took their departure.
The farce, however, did not end here.

After a little while the warriors returned, ushering in another savage, still more heroically arrayed.
This they announced as the chief of the belligerent village, but as a great pacificator.

His people had been furiously bent upon the attack, and would have doubtless carried it into effect, but this gallant chief had stood forth as the friend of white men, and had dispersed the throng by his own authority and prowess.

Having vaunted this signal piece of service, there was a significant pause; all evidently expecting some adequate reward.