In those wild lands ceremony is unknown; friendships are quickly made, if quickly sundered by the chances and changes of a life of adventure and change; and soon the band felt as if one common spirit inspired them.
There were three wounded men in Rogers' company; they were put upon a sledge and well covered up.

Then the party moved along to a position at some distance from that where they had met the attack.
"The Indians will come back to find and remove their dead," explained Rogers.

"It is better to be gone.

We will encamp and bivouac a little farther away.

Then we will hold a council as to our next move.