Let us go in to tell the others." The Huron runner's report proved to be correct.

Shortly before noon signals from Indian scouts proclaimed the approach of a band of white men.

Evidently Girty's forces had knowledge beforehand of the proximity of this band, for the signals created no excitement.

The Indians expressed only a lazy curiosity.

Soon several Delaware scouts appeared, escorting a large party of frontiersmen.
These men turned out to be Captain Williamson's force, which had been out on an expedition after a marauding tribe of Chippewas.