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We followed on , but he had gone down a steep bluff . We went down too , thus exposing ourselves to draw his fire so that we could locate him , but he was not tempted . `` The late Lieutenant Clark had much the same view of this mountain outlaw , and since those days two young men of the Seventh Cavalry , Rice and Averill , have on separate occasions crawled on his camp at the break of day , only to see Massai go out of sight in the brush like a blue quail . `` Lieutenant Averill , after a forced march of eighty-six miles , reached a hostile camp near morning , after climbing his detachment , since midnight , up the almost inaccessible rocks , in hopes of surprising the camp . He divided his force into three parts , and tried , as well as possible , to close every avenue of escape ; but as the camp was on a high rocky hill at the junction of four deep canons , this was found impracticable . At daylight the savages came out together , running like deer , and making for the canons . The soldiers fired , killing a buck and accidentally wounding a squaw , but Massai simply disappeared .