nine o'clock
hurrah ! '' came back to them ; and in another five minutes they were shaking hands heartily with their three friends from Canterbury , the Jamiesons , and two or three other neighboring settlers . They told them that Farquhar , as soon as Lopez brought news of the attack , had sent mounted men off to all the other settlements , begging them to meet that night at Mount Pleasant . By nine o'clock they had assembled , and , after a consultation , had agreed that the Indians would be satisfied with their present booty , and that therefore no guard would be necessary at their own estancias . A good feed and four hours ' rest had been given to their horses , and when the moon rose they had started . Two hours after leaving they had seen a dark mass approaching , and had prepared for an encounter ; but it had turned out to be the animals , who were going toward home at a steady pace . There seemed , they said , to be a good many horses among them .