Here they killed two horses; and drank the hot blood to give fierceness to their courage.
They painted and arrayed themselves hideously for battle; performed the dead dance round the slain, and raised the war song of vengeance.

Then mounting their horses to the number of four hundred and fifty men, and brandishing their weapons, they set off along the northern bank of the river, to get ahead of the canoes, lie in wait for them, and take a terrible revenge on the white men.
They succeeded in getting some distance above the canoes without being discovered, and were crossing the river to post themselves on the side along which the white men were coasting, when they were fortunately descried.

Mr.Stuart and his companions were immediately on the alert.
As they drew near to the place where the savages had crossed, they observed them posted among steep and overhanging rocks, close along which, the canoes would have to pass.

Finding that the enemy had the advantage of the ground, the whites stopped short when within five hundred yards of them, and discharged and reloaded their pieces.

They then made a fire, and dressed the wounds of Mr.Reed, who had received five severe gashes in the head.