The negroes were delighted at the success of the conflict; as were the Indians, who soon joined them.

But ten of the Spaniards had escaped, the rest having fallen; either in the gorge, killed by the rocks, or in the subsequent fight.
Ned and Gerald, who were now looked upon as the leaders of the party, told the negroes to collect the arms of the fallen men, and to give a hasty burial to their bodies.

The boys knew, too well, the savage nature of the war which raged, between the black and the white, to ask whether any of the Spaniards were only wounded.

They knew that an instant death had awaited all who fell into the hands of their late slaves.
"Now," Ned said, "my friends, you must not suppose that your fighting is over.

The Spaniards will take the news back to the town, and it is likely enough that we shall have a large force upon us, in the course of a few days.