We obeyed with right good will, and must have greatly astonished the savages, who, not aware of the increased number of our garrison, had probably expected to gain quite an easy victory.  Many of them had muskets, but the larger number could only have been armed with bows and arrows.  After they had shot five or six showers of arrows and fired their guns--fortunately, without hitting any of us, though we could hear their missiles pinging against the thick palisades--they suddenly ceased, and began to retreat, when Uncle Donald shouted to them in their own language, inquiring why they had attacked people who had done them no harm, but were anxious to benefit them.