Some of Clark's backwoodsmen instantly fell on them and killed or captured nine, besides two French partisans who had been out with them.

[Footnote: _Do_.

In the letter to Mason he says two scalped, six captured and after-wards tomahawked.

Bowman says two killed, three wounded, six captured; and calls the two partisans "prisoners." Hamilton and Clark say they were French allies of the British, the former saying there were two, the latter mentioning only one.

Hamilton says there were fifteen Indians.] One of the latter was the son of a creole lieutenant in Clark's troops, and after much pleading his father and friends procured the release of himself and his comrade.