Then the Indians burst into the house and asked the Frenchman if he had got any Englishmen concealed, the latter returned an evasive answer, telling them to search for themselves.

Henry hid himself under a heap of birch-bark vessels, which were used in maple-sugar manufacture.

The door was unlocked, the four Indians dashed in, their bodies covered with blood, and armed with tomahawks.

The hidden man thought that the throbbing of his heart must make a noise loud enough to betray him.

The Indians searched the garret, and one of them approached Henry so closely as almost to touch him; yet he remained undiscovered, possibly owing to the dark colour of his clothes and the dim light in the room.