Tyope and most of the others breathed on their war-fetiches, and then group after group stealthily moved onward.
The plan, which had been communicated to every one in its main points, consisted in reaching before sunrise the very ground which the Tehuas had selected for their operations; passing the following day in the woods of that vicinity in concealment, and creeping up to the Puye the following night; then, after sunrise, when the Tehuas would begin to scatter, unarmed and unsuspecting, pouncing upon them and making a general slaughter.

Tyope had under his direction more than two hundred men, and they extended over a wide front.

About twenty experienced warriors, mostly uakanyi, glided in advance as scouts.

Behind them came at a suitable distance either single warriors or small bands.

The main body came last.