Indian scouts had brought warning of the white advance, and the great chiefs, gathering up all the people who were in the village, had fled.

A retreating warrior or two had fired the shots, but when the white men entered this important Iroquois stronghold they did not find a single human being.

Timmendiquas, the White Lightning of the Wyandots, was gone; Thayendanegea, the real head of the Six Nations, had slipped away; and with them had vanished the renegades.

But they had gone in haste.
All around them were the evidences.

The houses, built of wood, were scores in number, and many of them contained furniture such as a prosperous white man of the border would buy for himself.