"Suppose you lay him in a wagon." Meanwhile preparations had been made for an advance.

The four dead or badly wounded draft mules were disentangled from the harness, and their places supplied with the four army mules, whose packs were thrown into the wagons.

These animals, by the way, had escaped injury, partly because they had been tethered between the two lines of vehicles, and partly because they had been well covered by their loads, which were plentifully stuck-with arrows.
"We are ready to march," said Thurstane to Coronado.

"I am sorry we can't try to recover your men back there." "No use," commented Texas Smith.

"The Patchies have been at 'em.