They were lured up to the Indians by imitations of the gobbling of a turkey or the cries of wild beasts.

They were regularly stalked as they still-hunted the game, or were ambushed as they returned with their horses laden with meat.

The inhabitants of one station were all either killed or captured.

Robertson led pursuing parties after one or two of the bands, and recovered some plunder; and once or twice small marauding parties were met and scattered, with some loss, by the hunters.

But, on the whole, very little could be done at first to parry or revenge the strokes of the Indians.