Timmendiquas and Thayendanegea rose after a while, and walked toward the center of the camp, where several of the bark shelters had been enclosed entirely.

Henry judged that one had been set apart for each, but they were lost from his view when they passed within the circling ring of warriors.
Henry believed that the Iroquois and Wyandots would form a fortified camp here, a place from which they would make sudden and terrible forays upon the settlements.

He based his opinion upon the good location and the great number of saplings that had been cut down already.

They would build strong lodges and then a palisade around them with the saplings.
He was speedily confirmed in this opinion when he saw warriors come to the forest with hatchets and begin to cut down more saplings.

He knew then that it was time to go, as a wood chopper might blunder upon him at any time.
He slipped from his covert and was quickly gone in the forest.