When they left they warned the Moravians that white men were on their trail.

[Footnote: Heckewelder, 3:1.] A white man who had just escaped this same impaling party, also warned the Moravians that the exasperated borderers were preparing a party to kill them; and Gibson, from Fort Pitt, sent a messenger to them, who, however, arrived too late.

But the poor Christian Indians, usually very timid, now, in the presence of a real danger, showed a curious apathy; their senses were numbed and dulled by their misfortunes, and they quietly awaited their doom.

[Footnote: Loskiel, 176.] It was not long deferred.

Eighty or ninety frontiersmen, under Williamson, hastily gathered together to destroy the Moravian towns.