Pike obtains horses from the Pawnee, and…
October 1806 CE
He orders his party to stay in a compact body, with guns and bayonets and sabers at the ready; he estimates that "it would have cost them at least 100 men to have exterminated us".
With no guides to the Comanches, he is forced to abandon that part of the mission; instead, he returns south into Kansas, where he attempts to follow Melgares's trail toward the Arkansas.