The following day the band kept closely together.

A vigilant lookout on the plains was kept up, and no straggling was allowed.

They had sufficient meat left over, from their spoils of the day before, to last for the day; and no hunting was necessary.
The next evening, just as they had retired to rest, one of the scouts came in and reported that he heard sounds around, which betokened the presence of man.

The calls of animals were heard on the plain; and a herd of deer, which had evidently been disturbed, had darted past at full speed.
The chief now ordered great quantities of dried wood to be thrown into the fire, and a vast blaze soon shot up high, illuminating a circle of a hundred yards in diameter.

Advancing to the edge of this circle, the chief held out his arms, to show that he was unarmed; and then shouted, at the top of his voice, to the effect that he invited all within hearing to come forward, in peace.