The artifice was a new one, and showed that the fugitives were assisted by men with intellect far in advance of their own.

The pursuit was summarily checked, for the guides of the Spaniards were now gone.
The enemy paused, and a consultation took place among the leaders.
It was apparently determined to pursue their way alone, taking every precaution, in hopes that the natives would attack them as they had done the previous expedition; when they hoped to inflict a decisive blow upon them.

That they would, themselves, be able to find the run-away negroes in the forest they had but small hope; but they thought it possible that these would again take the initiative.
First, under the guidance of one who had evidently been in the last expedition, they took their way to the valley where the fight had taken place.

Here all was still.

There were no signs of their foes.
They found, in the gorge, a great cairn of stones; with a wooden cross placed over it, and the words in Spanish cut upon it: "Here lie the bodies of ten Spaniards, who sought to attack harmless men in these woods.