about ten o'clock
Roche was severely bruised by his horse falling , and my pistol , by disabling his opponent , who was advancing with his tomahawk , saved his life . Gabriel had coolly thrown his lasso round his opponent , and had already strangled him , while the third had been in the very beginning of the attack run over by my horse . Gabriel lighted on the ground , entered the lodges , cut the strings of all the bows he could find , and , collecting a few more pieces of the meat , we started at a full gallop , not being inclined to wait till the Crows should have recovered from their panic . Though our horses were very tired , we rode thirteen miles more that night , and , about ten o'clock , arrived at a beautiful spot with plenty of fine grass and cool water , upon which both we and our horses stretched ourselves most luxuriously even before eating . Capital jokes were passed round that night while we were discussing the qualities of the mountain-goat flesh , but yet I felt annoyed at our feat ; the thing , to be sure , had been gallantly done , still it was nothing better than highway robbery . Hunger , however , is a good palliative for conscience , and , having well rubbed our horses , who seemed to enjoy their grazing amazingly , we turned to repose , watching alternately for every three hours . The next day at noon we met with unexpected sport and company .