The Frenchman does not like the Ojibway, but war makes strange comrades.

That was close!" A bullet whistled directly between them, and Tayoga, kneeling, fired in return.

There was no doubt about his aim, as a warrior uttered the death cry, and a fierce shout of rage from a dozen throats followed.
Robert, imaginative, ready to flame up in a moment, exulted, not because a warrior had fallen, but because the flank attack upon his own people had been stopped in the beginning.

St.Luc himself would have admitted that the Americans, or the English, as he would have called them, were acting wisely.

The soldiers, stirred by the successful shot, showed again a great desire to fire at the black woods, but Robert and the Onondaga still kept them down.
A crackling fire arose behind them, showing that the main force had engaged, and now and then the warriors uttered defiant cries.