Austill then rose, and snatching a war club from one of the Indians used that instead of his rifle.

Eight of the savages were slain, and Dale found himself face to face with the solitary survivor, whom he recognized as a young Muscogee with whom he had been for years on terms of the most intimate friendship, and whom he loved, as he declared, almost as a brother.

He lowered his up-raised rifle to spare his friend, but the savage would not accept quarter.

He cried out in the Creek language, which Dale understood as well as he did English.
"Big Sam, you are a man, and I am another! Now for it!" and with that the two joined in a struggle for life.

A blow from Dale's gun ended at once the canoe fight and the life of the young brave, who, even from his friend, would not accept the mercy which his nation was not ready to show to the whites.