All was still as death around the house.
They groped their way along, and as the corporal jumped over the small enclosure he placed his hand upon the dead body of a man.

By the sense of touch he soon ascertained that the head was without a scalp, and otherwise mutilated.

The faithful dog of the murdered man stood guarding the lifeless remains of his master.
The tale was now told.

The men retreated to their canoes, and reached the fort unmolested about eleven o'clock at night.

The next morning a party of the citizens and soldiers volunteered to go to Lee's Place, to learn further the fate of its occupants.