It is said that to the day of his death Dale could not speak of this incident without shedding tears.
Dale and his comrades had still a duty to do and some danger yet to encounter.

The party remaining on the bank was in imminent peril, and must be rescued at all hazards.

The little canoe was not large enough to carry them all, and so the big one must be cleared of the dead Indians in it, and the heroes of the canoe fight accomplished this under a severe fire from the bank.

Then jumping into the captured boat, they paddled to the shore, and taking their hard pressed comrades on board, crossed under fire to the other side, whence they marched to Fort Glass, twelve miles away, having dealt the savages a severe blow without losing a man.

Austill was hurt pretty badly on the head, and a permanent dent in his skull attested the narrowness of his escape.
This battle was waged within sight of the root fortress, the drift pile being indeed the cover from which the Indians fought.