"If you can do that, Cody, go ahead," he said.
I at once rushed back to the command and jumped on my horse.
With fifteen of the best men I could pick in a hurry I returned to the point of observation.

I placed myself and my men at the order of General Merritt, and asked him to give me the word at the proper time.
He was diligently studying the country before him with his field-glasses.

When he thought the Indians were as close to the unsuspecting scouts as was safe, he sang out: "Go on now, Cody, and be quick about it.

They are going to charge on the couriers." The two soldiers were not more than a hundred yards from us.

The Indians, now making ready to swoop down, were a hundred yards further on.
We tore over the bluffs and advanced at a gallop.