De Courcelles and Jumonville slept on the other side of the camp.

There go their boots.

All the French soldiers but Dubois lay down to sleep, and only the warriors watched.

They left at dawn, not stopping to eat breakfast.

If they had eaten, birds would be here hunting shreds of flesh in the grass, but we do not see a single bird, nor has any wolf or other prowling animal been drawn by the odor of food.