The warriors watched carefully this proceeding, observing attentively the outline which their chief had made with the sticks.

Then they would go away and set to placing themselves in such order as the sticks were in.

This manoeuvre they repeated several times, and at all their encampments, without needing a sergeant to maintain them in the proper order they were able to keep accurately the positions assigned to them" (Champlain).
The Hurons who were accompanying Champlain frequently questioned him as to his dreams, they themselves having a great belief in the value of dreams as omens and indications of future events.

One day, when they were approaching the country of the Iroquois, Champlain actually did have a dream.

In this he imagined that he saw the Iroquois enemies drowning in a lake near a mountain.