en carrying to relieve West of part of his burden) and
discharging it at his assailant, brought him to the ground.

The whites being by this time rid of their encumbrances, the Indians
retreated in two parties and pursued different routes, not however
without being pursued. Alexander West being swift of foot, soon came
near enough to fire, and brought down a second, but having only
wounded him, and seeing the Indians spring behind trees, he could not
advance to finish him; nor could he again shoot at him, the flint
having fallen out when he first fired. Jackson (who was hunting sheep
not far off) hearing the report of the guns, ran towards the spot, and
being in sight of the Indian when West shot, saw him fall and
afterwards recover and hobble off. Simon Schoolcraft, following after
West, came to him just after Jackson, with his gun cocked; and asking
where the Indians were, was advised by Jackson to get behind a tree,
or they would soon let him know where they were. Instantly the report
of a gun was heard, and Schoolcraft let fall his arm. The ball had
passed through it, and striking a steel tobacco box in his waistcoat
pocket, did him no farther injury. Cutright, when West fired at one of
the Indians, saw another of them drop behind a log, and changing his
position, espied him, where the log was a little raised from the
earth. With steady nerves, he drew upon him. The moaning cry of the
savage, as he sprang from the ground and moved haltingly away,
convinced them that the shot had taken effect. The rest of the Indians
continued behind trees, until they observed a reinforcement coming up
to the aid of the whites, and they fled with the utmost precipitancy.
Night soon coming on, those who followed them, had to give over the
pursuit.

A company of fifteen men went early next morning to the battle ground,
and taking the trail of the Indians and pursuing it some distance,
came to where they had some horses (which they had stolen after the
skirmish) hobbled out on a fork of Hacker's creek. They [210] then
found the plunder which the savages had taken from neighboring houses,
and supposing that their wounded warriors were near, the whites
commenced looking for them, when a gun was fired at them by an Indian
concealed in a laurel thicket, which wounded John Cutright.[5] The
whites then caught the stolen horses and returned with them and the
plunder to the fort.

For some time after this, there was nothing occurring to indi