His first experience had borne good fruit, and now he had been taught a series of fresh and valuable lessons.

Before his eyes had been displayed the most brilliant European discipline, both in camp and on the march.

He had studied and absorbed it all, talking with veterans and hearing from them many things that he could have acquired nowhere else.

Once more had he been taught, in a way not to be forgotten, that it is never well to underrate one's opponent.

He had looked deeper, too, and had seen what the whole continent soon understood, that English troops were not invincible, that they could be beaten by Indians, and that they were after all much like other men.