That they are on the maraud is evidenced by the absence of tents.
"The Lone Ranche"
Captain Mayne Reid
The large drove of horses and horned cattle, to say nothing of that crowd of despairing captives, proves the proceeds of the later maraud worth as much, or perhaps more, than what had been taken from the traders' waggons.
"The Lone Ranche"
Captain Mayne Reid
In this way they would linger about the rookery and its vicinity for the early part of the morning, when, having apparently mustered all their forces, called over the roll, and determined upon their line of march, they one and all would sail off in a long straggling flight to maraud the distant fields.
"Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey"
Washington Irving