As he, Colden, Wilton and Carson watched at the palisade he was in fear lest a triumphant shout from the Indian lines would show that the hunter and the Onondaga had been trapped.
But the long hours passed without an alarm and about three o'clock in the morning two shadows appeared at the palisade and whispered to them.

Robert felt great relief as Willet and Tayoga climbed silently over.
"We're half frozen," said the hunter.

"Take us into the blockhouse and over the fire we'll tell you all we've seen." They always kept a bed of live coals on the hearth in the main building, and the two who had returned bent over the grateful heat, warming their hands and faces.

Not until they were in a normal physical condition did Colden or Robert ask them any questions and then Willet said: "Their ring about the fort is complete, but in the darkness we were able to slip through and then back again.

I should judge that they have at least three hundred warriors and Tandakora is first among them.