This done, the chief desired the priest to enquire: Whether or not the English were preparing to make war upon the Indians?
and whether or not there were at Fort Niagara a large number of English troops?
The priest was heard to put the questions, and then the tent shook and rocked so violently that Henry expected to see it levelled with the ground.

But apparently answers were given, after which a terrific cry announced, with sufficient intelligibility, the departure of the Turtle.

Subsequently the priest interpreted the Great Turtle's answers, which gave a great deal of information regarding the disposition and numbers of the English soldiers, and the presents which Sir William Johnson was preparing for the Ojibwes; and which finally approved the wisdom of the embassy proceeding on its way.
Journeying along the shores of Lake Huron, they stopped to avoid a gale of wind and to rest.

Henry, gathering firewood, disturbed a rattlesnake which manifested hostile intentions.

He went back to the canoe to fetch his gun; but upon telling the Ojibwes that he was about to kill a rattlesnake they begged him to desist.