All our assailants bolted into the bushes and long grass the instant after firing, save two, one of whom was about to discharge a musket and the other an arrow, when arrested by the fire of the second boat.

Not one of them showed their faces again, till we were a thousand yards away.

A few shots were then fired over their heads, to give them an idea of the range of our rifles, and they all fled into the woods.

Those on the sandbank rushed off too, with the utmost speed; but as they had not shot at us, we did not molest them, and they went off safely with their cloth.

They probably expected to kill one of our number, and in the confusion rob the boats.