The men felt about, till each found a space of ground, sufficiently large to lie down upon, and soon all were asleep except the two scouts, who said, at once, that they would watch by turns till daylight.
As soon as it was sufficiently light to see in the forest, the band were again in motion.

They made due east, until they crossed the trail leading from the head of Lake Champlain to Fort Edward; kept on for another hour, and then, turning to the south, made in the direction of Albany, for it would have been dangerous to approach Fort Edward, round which the Indians were sure to be scattered thickly.
For the first two hours after starting, the distant roar of the guns had gone on unceasingly, then it suddenly stopped.
"They have hoisted the white flag," Edwards said.

"It is all over.
Thank God, we are well out of it! I don't mind fighting, Walsham, but to be massacred by those Indians is a hideous idea." "I am glad we are out of it too," James agreed; "but I cannot think that Montcalm, with so large a force of French regulars at his command, will allow those fiendish Indians to massacre the prisoners." "I hope not," Edwards said.

"It will be a disgrace indeed to him and his officers if he does; but you know what the Indians are, better than I do, and you have heard Nat's opinion.

You see, if Montcalm were to use force against the Indians, the whole of them would go off, and then there would be an end to any hope of the French beating the colonists in the long run.